60 Minutes’ Bob Simon Killed in Car Crash

Veteran '60 Minutes' correspondent Bob Simon was killed in a car crash Wednesday night.

The accident happened on the West Side Highway in Manhattan when his livery cab crashed into a Mercedes and lost control and slammed into a pedestrian expansion.

Reported by The New York Post, the driver of the Mercedes said the livery driver was driving erratically. "He swerved into me,” the driver said. “He hit me and he looked like he lost control of the car.”

Simon was transported to St. Luke's where he died. Simon was 73 years old, and is best known for his work on '60 Minutes'. He had been with CBS for 5 decades and joined '60 Minutes' in 1996.