By Sky News US Team
Veteran CBS News correspondent Bob Simon, who covered major conflicts and survived captivity in Iraq, has died in a car crash in New York, aged 73.
Simon was a long-time member of the network's 60 Minutes on-air team.
He was killed when the 2010 Lincoln Town car in which he was a passenger slammed into a Mercedes Benz and then hit metal lane barriers on Manhattan's West Side, police said.
Simon suffered injuries to his head and torso and was pronounced dead on arrival at Saint Luke's Roosevelt Hospital, police said.
The award-winning newsman's career spanned five decades. He covered the Vietnam War and spent years doing foreign reporting for CBS News, particularly from the Middle East.
At the start of the Gulf War in January 1991, Simon was part of a CBS News team who spent 40 days in Iraqi prisons after being captured by Iraqi forces near the Saudi-Kuwaiti border.
CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley, his eyes red, announced the death in a special report.
CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, who does occasional stories for 60 Minutes, was near tears talking about Simon's death.
"I dreamed of being, and still hope to be, a quarter of the writer that Bob Simon is and has been," he said. "Bob Simon was a legend, in my opinion."
Jeff Fager, executive producer of 60 Minutes, said in a statement: "It is such a tragedy made worse because we lost him in a car accident, a man who has escaped more difficult situations than almost any journalist in modern times.
"Bob was a reporter's reporter."
Simon earned 27 Emmy awards for reporting during his career, and won electronic journalism's highest honour, the Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award, for the piece Shame Of Srebrenica, a 60 Minutes II report on genocide during the Bosnian War.
His Emmy awards included domestic stories as well as reporting from Vietnam, Lebanon, Cambodia, Saudi Arabia, India and China.
He was also honoured for Curveball, an investigation into an Iraqi defector whose testimony eventually led America to war.
Simon was preparing a report on the Ebola virus and the search for a cure for this Sunday's 60 Minutes broadcast.
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