'Sorcerer's Apprentice' NYC Car Chase Goes Wrong

Early this morning, a movie car chase scene being filmed near Times Square went awry when a speeding black Ferrari jumped a curb and crashed into the entrance of a Sbarro's restaurant at 47th Street and Seventh Avenue.

The New York Post reports that two people were injured when the driver lost control of the car while filming the scene shortly before 1 a.m. this morning, knocking down a woman and hitting a lamppost -- which then fell and injured another bystander.

The stunt was reportedly being filmed for the upcoming Nicolas Cage movie The Sorcerer's Apprentice, a live-action feature film based on the Fantasia animated short. The scene involved a Ferrari weaving between cars and taxis in pursuit of a Mercedes. Seventh Avenue was closed to filming during the shoot.

Watch video and read an eyewitness account of the scene below.

A tourist witnessed the accident from the top of the new TKTS booth:

"A black Ferrari and a silver Mercedes were chasing each other," he said.

"The Ferrari took a route down the center of the road, swerving between cars. The Mercedes took the outside lanes.

"The Ferrari took a sharp right to the left and lost it, swerving across the lanes, taking out a lamppost and a news stand.

Both victims were taken to Bellevue hospital with injuries that were not deemed life-threatening.

Top photo: Nicolas Cage and Jay Baruchel filming The Sorcerer's Apprentice March 2009 in NYC.

-- Daniel Lehman