2017 New York City truck attack
On October 31, 2017, Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov drove a rented pickup truck into cyclists and runners for about one mile (1.6 kilometers) of the Hudson River Park's bike path alongside West Street from Houston Street south to Chambers Street in Lower Manhattan, New York City. The vehicle-ramming attack killed eight people, six of whom were foreign tourists, and injured eleven others.
| 2017 New York City truck attack | |
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Rental truck used in the attack, seen the morning after
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| Location | Along West Street in Manhattan, New York, U.S. |
| Coordinates | 40.7173°N 74.0131°W |
| Date | October 31, 2017 3:05 p.m. – 3:10 p.m. (EDT) |
| Target | Bicyclists and pedestrians |
Attack type | Vehicle-ramming attack, mass murder, terrorism |
| Weapon | Ford Super Duty pickup truck |
| Deaths | 8 |
| Injured | 12 (including the perpetrator) |
| Perpetrator | Sayfullo Saipov |
| Motive | Islamist terrorism inspired by ISIL |
After crashing the truck into a school bus, Saipov exited, apparently wielding two guns (later found to be a paintball gun and a pellet gun). He was shot in the abdomen by a policeman and arrested. A flag and a document indicating allegiance to the terrorist group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) were found in the truck.
A federal grand jury indicted 29-year-old Saipov, who had immigrated to the United States from Uzbekistan in 2010, with eight murders in the aid of racketeering, twelve attempted murders in the aid of racketeering, destruction of a motor vehicle and providing material support for a terrorist organization. This was the second terrorist attack allegedly committed by a winner of the Diversity Immigrant Visa lottery following the 2002 Los Angeles International Airport shooting. After the attack, anti-vehicle bollards were installed on the Hudson River Park bike path. Saipov was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in 2023.