Three hurt by out-of-control vehicle on the Upper East Side

UPPER EAST SIDE (WABC) -- Three people were injured by an out-of-control car that crashed into a construction site on the Upper East Side.

It happened on Lexington Avenue between 87th and 88th streets around 3:30 p.m. Wednesday.

The car was traveling down Lexington Avenue; side swiped a parked car, and then wound up slamming into the back of a Con Edison work site.

This was a work crew doing work on underground gas mains when this car, they say, came out of nowhere.

They were actually had seen it coming and they had to dive out of the way.

One of the workers wound up pushed by the car under the back of a work truck. That may have saved that worker's life.

At least two of the workers were taken to Cornell Medical Center a few blocks away, along with the driver of the car.

The workers told Eyewitness News that the driver seemed to be foaming at the mouth, seemed to be having some sort of a medical condition when he lost control and slammed right into their workplace.

None of the three people hospitalized are said to be suffering from serious, and the driver was actually alert and conscious and talking on his cell phone when they wheeled him away and into an ambulance.