Bob Simon, a long-time CBS reporter and ongoing 60 Minutes correspondent, was killed in a car accident on Wednesday night in New York City, according to the network for which he worked.
Simon was 73 years old.
Details are still coming in, but the veteran reporter is believed to have been the passenger in a Lincoln town car that was struck on the West Side Highway by a Mercedes Benz.
The town car subsequently ran into the middle barrier of the highway.
The driver was transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries, while the driver of the Mercedes was unharmed.
Tragically, however, Simon was taken to St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital, but doctors there were unable to save his life.
Following nearly two decades at 60 Minutes, Simon won a total of six Emmy Awards, most recently in 2012 for his work on the segment “Joy in the Congo."
He also won a Peabody award for international reporting on CBS News.
Our thoughts go out to his loved ones.