Peers Mourn the Death of 60 Minutes' Bob Simon

Dies at 73 after car crash in New York

Bob Simon, the 60 Minutes mainstay whose gentlemanly-but-stern TV reporting was among CBS News' enduring signatures for decades, died Wednesday night in New York City after a livery cab accident. He was 73. 

The New York Daily News reported that Simon was rushed to St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital, where doctors were unable to save him. Simon was a passenger in the cab on Manhattan's West Side Highway when it rear-ended another vehicle and then crashed into a center median near 30th Street, according to the Daily News. 

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