A driver who told cops he was high on angel dust led police on a 30-block chase that left six people hospitalized on Sunday morning, officials said.
The mayhem began when cops received a call for a Grey Nissan Ultima that side-swiped two unoccupied parked cars on 61st Street and 1st Avenue around 9 a.m., cops said.
Soon after the initial call, another pair of cops discovered the runaway driver — 25-year-old Anthony Garcia of the Bronx –– driving northbound on 88th Street and York Avenue — but when Garcia reached 96th Street and the FDR Drive, he collided with three moving cars, police said.
Garcia ditched the car and fled on foot, but he was eventually arrested near 99th Street and FDR Drive, police said.
Police sources said Garcia was uncooperative and slurring his speech, claiming he was on the drug “PCP” — otherwise known as angel dust or Phencyclidine, a mind-altering drug known to cause hallucinations, according to the US National Library of Medicine — National Institutes of Health.
Six people sustained minor injuries and were transported to New York-Presbyterian Hospital, cops said.
Garcia was charged with two counts of leaving the scene of an incident without reporting, reckless endangerment, driving while intoxicated and aggravated unlicensed operator of a motor vehicle, according to officials.