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A female hit-and-run driver who plowed into seven pedestrians in Midtown Manhattan late on Sunday night<\/a> has been pictured entering court wearing a ‘good vibes’ t-shirt.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Imani Lucas, 29, is charged with attempted murder after reportedly closing her eyes and praying as she ran a red light on the crosswalk between West 36th Street and 6th Avenue in her Honda Accord at 11.55pm, leaving a bloody scene<\/a> in her wake.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lucas, from Belle Mead, New Jersey, was flanked by three cops Tuesday morning as she entered a Manhattan courthouse looking disheveled in handcuffs and a gray t-shirt emblazoned with the slogan: ‘good vibes’.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Her mother said she takes medication for bipolar disorder and was ‘hearing voices’ while seeming to suffer a manic episode at the time of the crash.<\/p>\n

Lucas underwent a psychiatric evaluation before being charged with seven counts of attempted murder, seven counts of assault, reckless endangerment, leaving the scene of an accident with serious injuries, and reckless driving.<\/p>\n

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Imani Lucas, a hit-and-run driver who plowed into seven pedestrians in Midtown Manhattan on Sunday night has been pictured entering court wearing a ‘good vibes’ t-shirt<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Lucas is charged with attempted murder after reportedly praying to God and closing her eyes as she plowed into seven pedestrians on a crosswalk between West 36th Street and 6th Avenue in her black Honda Accord at 11.55pm<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The New Jersey local was pictured in handcuffs on Tuesday morning flanked by three cops as she entered a Manhattan court looking disheveled while wearing a gray t-shirt emblazoned with the slogan: ‘good vibes’<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Gruesome images from the aftermath of the crash<\/a> show many of the victims – six men and one woman ranging in age from 24 to 61 – sprawled on the ground unconscious and covered in blood.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lucas continued driving for around another 13 miles via the Midtown Tunnel before she crashed into two vehicles off the Long Island Expressway at Clearview, Queens.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Miraculously, each of the pedestrians and other motorists impacted by her rampage are expected to survive – though some suffered horrific injuries ranging from leg fractures to spinal cord damage requiring five hours of surgery.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The motorist’s mother, Melissa Lucas, said her daughter suffers from bipolar disorder and was ‘hearing voices’ in the moments before she crashed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘She is on medication, and as far as we knew she was taking her medication,’ Melissa Lucas told Gothamist<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘This episode coming on all of a sudden, I don’t know what to think or what precipitated it.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘Imani would never do anything intentionally to hurt anybody or anything,’ she added. ‘Nothing like this has happened before.’<\/p>\n

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The motorist’s mother, Melissa Lucas, said her daughter suffers from bipolar disorder and was ‘hearing voices’ in the moments before she crashed<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Melissa said she had been on vacation with her husband when she got a call from her daughter late Sunday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘She said she was hearing voices… I asked her, I said: “Imani, where are you?”‘ Melissa recalled.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘She didn’t know where she was. She didn’t know where she was going. She said, ‘I’m just driving. I’m just driving.<\/p>\n

‘And I said, ‘Where are you?’ ‘I don’t know. I don’t know.’\u00a0And then that’s when I think I heard a police officer coming up to her talking, and then I heard something like Bayside, Queens.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lucas told detectives she closed her eyes and prayed to God in the moments before the crosswalk crash, according to Abc7<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Photographs which emerged in the immediate aftermath show the front of Lucas’ Honda completely crumpled by the impact of the collision in Queens – and new images released on Tuesday show her in transit moments before.<\/p>\n

CCTV images also show Lucas hurtling down the highway towards pedestrians at the crossing.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Shocking new photographs show the aftermath of bloody hit-and-run after a female driver plowed into seven pedestrians in New York late on Sunday<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Shocking new photographs show the aftermath of bloody hit-and-run after a female driver plowed into seven pedestrians in New York late on Sunday<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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She reportedly said a prayer before running a red light and smashing into people on the crosswalk between West 36th Street and 6th Avenue at 11.55pm. Pictured: her Honda Accord just before the crash\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Witness photographs caught moments later show the grisly impact of what police believe was an attempt to murder seven innocent pedestrians.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cops said they were mainly New Yorkers, with one or two tourists involved – reportedly from Italy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

An alarmed employee from a nearby Taco Bell leapt into action after he saw what happened.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He said each of the pedestrians appeared unresponsive when he first rushed out onto the street.\u00a0Many were flung between bin bags near the sidewalk, photographs show.<\/p>\n

‘I took them water and tissue to clean everything. It was a very dangerous accident,’ the Taco Bell staffer told Pix11 moments after the crash.<\/p>\n

Footage of the scene shows people stepping between their bodies as they tried to check their vital signs, with one man on the phone to emergency services.<\/p>\n

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Lucas, from Belle Mead, New Jersey, underwent a psychiatric evaluation before being charged with seven counts of attempted murder, seven counts of assault, reckless endangerment, leaving the scene of an accident with serious injuries, and reckless driving<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The defendant’s mother said\u00a0Her mother said she suffers from bipolar disorder and may have been experiencing a manic episode at the time of the crash.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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