Traffic Shouldn’t Be Too Bad At That Time Of Day On The East Side

Because if you’re driving around on the lam the obvious place to escape to is Midtown Manhattan:

Joel Noonan, 36, of Avon, Mass., was driving a Jeep on Lexington Avenue yesterday morning when he collided with a Nissan Pathfinder at 63rd Street, police said. The Pathfinder bounced off the Jeep and struck a woman who was taken to Lenox Hill Hospital and was listed last night in stable condition. Noonan’s Jeep was sent onto the sidewalk where it collided with a group of pedestrians. Their conditions were unclear last night.

Two Metropolitan Transportation Authority police officers were the first on the scene and found Noonan outside his vehicle with a knife in his hand, authorities said. Police said they fired at him and used pepper spray to subdue him.

Witnesses described a chaotic scene.

“He had a knife in his left hand and he’s swinging it at the cops, chasing them around his Jeep,” recalled bystander Raymond Garcia, who said he saw the police pepper-spray and shoot Noonan.

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Noonan — who was shot in the groin and abdomen — is wanted in connection with the stabbing death of his cousin’s husband. East Providence, R.I., police told the Providence Journal-Bulletin that Noonan stabbed 37-year-old Steven Dowaglia to death during an argument Sunday evening at a home there. He then attacked his cousin and her 8-year-old daughter, police said.