Four time Peabody Award Winner and almost 30 time Emmy winner Bob Simon was killed Wednesday evening when his livery cab crashed with a Mercedes, lost control and plowed into a pedestrian expansion on the West Side Highway in Manhattan.

Police had to remove the top of the Lincoln Town Car to free Simon and the driver. Simon’s driver was suspected of having a heart attack behind the wheel. The driver of the Mercedes claimed the driver of the Town Car was performing erratically, had swerved into him and then lost control of the car, reported by the New York Post.

Simon began working at CBS in 1969, first in foreign bureaus and then as State Department correspondent. Later he became the Middle East corresponded, gaining prominence for his reporting during the Iraq War. In the early days of the Iraq War, Simon and his crew were captured by Iraqi forces and held in prison for 40 days. Simon later published a book about the time titled, Forty Days.

Simon was 73 years old. He is survived by his wife Francoise and a daughter, Tanya.