2ND ACCIDENT IN 3 DAYS ON THE SET OF NICHOLAS CAGE "THE SORCERER'S APPRENTICE"!

Is the "Sorcerer" cursed?

For the second time in three days, a car jumped a curb on the Times Square set of Nicholas Cage's new movie "The Sorcerer's Apprentice." Nine members of his film's crew were injured in Wednesday's crash.

An SUV swerving to avoid a cab careened onto the 7th Ave. sidewalk, slamming into a group of crew members who had gathered underneath the marquee of "Mamma Mia!" at the Winter Garden Theater.

"I heard people scream," said the SUV's passenger Dijon Rhem, who was returning from dinner to celebrate her 21st birthday. "I heard people yelling."

The driver of the BMW X5 SUV, Laura Conti, told investigators a yellow cab changed lanes without signaling and swerved right in front of her SUV at 3:30 a.m.

"A taxi cab cut in front of me," Conti said, cradling her swollen hand, injured when her car's airbags exploded. "I tried to avoid an accident and that caused an accident."

Her SUV barreled a parked blue Grand Cherokee, which spun into the film's crew, clipping several people and knocking others onto the sidewalk.

The victim, many of whom were drinking coffee while sitting on milk crates under the marquee, were taken to area hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries.

The cab sped off into the rainy night without stopping, witnesses said.

"We ended up hurting other people because of you, and he kept going," said Conti, a nursing major at College of Mount Saint Vincent "He's probably home now sleeping."

The movie's production managers declined to comment. Filming was temporarily suspended after the accident.

On Sunday night, one of the film's stunt drivers lost control of a Ferrari speeding through Times Square and struck two bystanders as it plowed into a Sbarro pizzeria.
Neither victim in that crash was seriously injured.

The Disney-produced movie, which is due out next year, is a live action film based on the epic poem that inspired the famed animated sequence in "Fantasia."

Nicholas Cage was not on the set at the time of either accident.