Veteran 60 Minutes correspondent Bob Simon killed in car accident

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Award-winning 60 Minutes correspondent Bob Simon was killed Wednesday night in Manhattan when the livery cab he was riding in crashed on the West Side Highway.

Simon, 73, was in a Lincoln Town Car that sources say collided with a Mercedes before losing control and hitting a pedestrian expansion near 30th Street, the New York Post reports. He was rushed to St. Luke's Hospital, where he died.

Simon's career spanned five decades, and he reported from war zones in Vietnam, the Persian Gulf, Yugoslavia, and the Falkland Islands, CBS News reports. He joined 60 Minutes in 1996, and his most recent piece on the director of the movie Selma aired this past Sunday.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US
Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.