Bob Simon, a longtime "60 Minutes" correspondent, was killed in a car crash in New York on Wednesday evening, police have confirmed. He was 73.

Simon was a passenger in a Lincoln Town Car when it hit the driver's side of a Mercedes Benz that was stopped at a light at 12th Avenue and West 30th Street, according to the New York Police Department.

Officers responded at 6:44 p.m. and found Simon unconscious and unresponsive, with injuries to his head and torso, police said.

He was taken to St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

The driver, a 44-year-old man, was taken to Bellevue Hospital and is in stable condition, according to police.

Simon joined "60 Minutes" in 1996 and has covered most major overseas conflicts since the 1960s, according to his biography on the CBS News website.

In January 1991, during the early days of the Persian Gulf War, Simon and three members of his CBS News crew were arrested and held captive for 40 days in Iraq. In "Forty Days," his book about the experience, Simon said the newsmen were interrogated, beaten with canes and truncheons, and starved by their captors.

(Staff writers Tina Susman in New York and Lauren Raab and Ryan Parker in Los Angeles contributed to this report.)

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