Veteran “60 Minutes” correspondent and CBS News foreign reporter Bob Simon was killed Wednesday in a car accident in New York City, CBS News reported.
The network did not offer more details about Simon’s death. However, The New York Post reported that Simon, 73, was killed when the town car in which he was riding hit a Mercedes, lost control and crashed into a pedestrian structure on the city's west side at around 7 p.m.
“He swerved into me,” the Mercedes driver said. “He hit me and he looked like he lost control of the car.”
Simon and the town car's driver were taken to a nearby hospital, where Simon was pronounced dead.
Simon covered stories including the Vietnam War and the Oscar-nominated movie "Selma" in a career spanning five decades. CBS says Simon was among a handful of elite journalists who've covered most major overseas conflicts and news stories since the late 1960s.
Simon had been contributing to "60 Minutes" on a regular basis since 1996. He also was a correspondent for "60 Minutes II."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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