Bob Simon, '60 Minutes' correspondent, killed in Manhattan car crash

NEW YORK -- CBS says "60 Minutes" correspondent and legendary journalist Bob Simon was killed in a car crash in New York Wednesday night.

Simon, 73, was the passenger in a town car that lost control and crashed into a pedestrian median on Manhattan's West Side around 7 p.m.

Simon went into cardiac arrest and was rushed to St. Luke's Hospital where he later died.

One other person was taken to Bellevue Hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

Simon was among a handful of elite journalists to cover most major overseas conflicts and news stories since the late 1960s, CBS said. He covered stories including the Vietnam War and the Oscar-nominated movie "Selma" in a career spanning five decades.

Simon had been contributing to "60 Minutes" on a regular basis since 1996. He also was a correspondent for "60 Minutes II."

Simon won numerous awards, including his fourth Peabody and an Emmy for his story from Central Africa on the world's only all-black symphony 2012. Another story about an orchestra in Paraguay, one whose poor members constructed their instruments from trash, won him his 27th Emmy, perhaps the most held by a journalist for field reporting, CBS said.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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