By Janon Fisher For Dailymail.Com

Published: 15:09 EDT, 20 September 2022 | Updated: 20:36 EDT, 20 September 2022

This is the dramatic moment a man and a woman miraculously avoided being crushed to death by a falling crane.

Terrifying footage shows the towering structure come crashing down on a silver Ford Focus in the Bronx, New York City.

It smashes through the roof of the vehicle as it stopped at a red light - but somehow the 22-year-old female driver survived with minor injuries.

Meanwhile a construction worker also walking past to help direct traffic sprinted away as the crane fell.

Incredibly, no one was seriously injured when this articulated boom came crashing down on this car which had stopped at a traffic light

Somehow, the 22-year-old woman driving this car was not seriously injured when this crane arm came crashing down on her car

The 11-story building had been cited in late August for violating city rules regarding the scaffolding in front of the building

Surveillance video from nearby shops caught the near-fatal accident that left one passerby holding his head in amazement after the boom missed him.

The truck was lifting a load of rebar at the construction site of an 11-story building at the corner of Bedford Park Boulevard and Villa Avenue when the crane lift came tumbling down into the roadway at about 10.30am.

The massive steel hydraulic lift landed on a silver four-door sedan and stopped at a light, crushing the roof and rocking the car back and forth.

A man carrying a small grocery bag who was passing at the time, ran for cover as the large yellow traffic signal came crashing down into the roadway along with other metal fragments that just missed him.

A frantic scene erupted afterward as good Samaritans and passersby surrounded the car, attempting to free the passenger and driver.

The Emergency Medical Technicians with the FDNY arrived a short time later and took the 22-year-old driver and passenger to Saint Barnabas Hospital where they were treated for minor injuries.

The cab of the truck supporting the crane was completely demolished in the construction crash 

A massive steal crane arm smashed down on a silver four-door sedan that had stopped at a nearby light in the Bronx on Tuesday

Miraculously, the 22-year-old woman driving the car and her passenger were not seriously injured in the accident

The man holding the bag crossed Bedford Park Boulevard after the accident and kept walking.

The New York City Fire Department evacuated 29 construction workers from the project and the Department of Buildings shut down work on the building while they investigated the accident. 

'Our preliminary investigation has determined that the boom truck was making a delivery, lifting a load of rebar from a trailer and onto the roof of the construction project, when the arm of the boom failed and collapsed onto the adjacent roadway,' Department of Buildings spokesman Andrew Rudansky said.

Construction workers and passersby rushed to aid the woman in the silver sedan, center, after a crane arm came smashing down on it

The man in the white shirt, far right, was walking under the crane arm when it crumpled down in the roadway, narrowly missing him

After doing a more thorough inspection in the hours after the crash, city building inspectors found numerous safety violations and issued summonses for failure to safeguard the construction site, failure to have the construction elevator in the proper position, failure to obtain electrical permits for temporary lighting and standpipe compressor used at the site.

All State General Contractor Corp, and site safety manager Jesus Rojo-Garcia of Jesus First Safety Corp were issued summonses for the violations. 

The city DOB halted construction on the building until the problems on the property are fixed. 

The project has been cited for construction violations before.

In late August, Classic Construction Group, of Bayside, Queens, received a summons for a shaky protective sidewalk shed and was fined $2,400 by the New York City Department of Buildings. They have not paid the fine.

The comments below have not been moderated.

The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline.

We are no longer accepting comments on this article.

Published by Associated Newspapers Ltd

Part of the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday & Metro Media Group