[Video from an early morning crash on Jerome Avenue in Bedford Park that left two passengers critically.]

Three men were injured, two critically, after a car traveling at a high rate of speed recently slammed into a subway pillar underneath the elevated No. 4 Train on Jerome Avenue.

Rescue crews were dispatched to Jerome Avenue, between Van Cortland Avenue East and Risse Street in Bedford Park, immediately after the 6:10 a.m. crash on Sunday, Feb. 19.

Arriving units discovered three men pinned inside a blue Chevy Impala that struck the pillar head-on.

Few details were available but investigators say the vehicle was traveling northbound on Jerome when the accident occurred. EMS reported the 22-year old driver and a 28-year old passenger were rushed to St. Barnabas Hospital in critical condition. A second passenger, a 22-year old male, was removed to Jacobi Hospital. That unidentified victim was first listed as critical but has since been upgraded to stable.

An NYPD source close to the investigation, said, “Upon their arrival it was determined that a 2005 blue Impala traveling northbound on Jerome, ended up colliding with a pillar along the elevated tracks of the subway train.”

One witness who arrived at the scene moments after the crash, said, “I thought it was a police chase the way they responded.”

A taxi driver, who also didn’t want to be identified, said he had just finished work and headed home when he drove past the scene. He said, “I live in the area and I just wanted to see what happened.”

The taxi driver was also returning home on the morning of Dec. 26, when he also stumbled upon a similar accident scene, just two blocks away, on Mosholu Parkway, where Norwood resident Josbel Rivera, 23, was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver.

Now shaking his head and looking at the light blue vehicle with two of its four doors removed by firefighters during the rescue, said, “It’s terrible the way some people drive today.”