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COURIER L 12 IFE, JANUARY 21-27, 2022
15-year-old killed
in Sheepshead
Bay hit-and-run
A 15-year-old girl died the morning of Jan. 17 after being
struck by a driver in Sheepshead Bay. Photos by Lloyd Mitchell
BY BEN BRACHFELD
A school bus driver fatally
struck a 15-year-old
girl in an apparent hitand
run in Sheepshead
Bay on Monday morning,
the NYPD reported.
Police responded to a
911 call of a pedestrian
struck in the roadway at
Bedford Avenue and Avenue
P in the Madison
section of Sheepshead
Bay shortly before 8 am.
Arriving offi cers
found the girl lying in
the roadway, and EMS
workers pronounced her
dead at the scene. The
girl was identifi ed by police
as Antoninia Zatulovska,
of Coney Island.
The driver was found
later in Coney Island, the
Daily News reports.
Police said Monday
night that they had arrested
55-year-old Aleksandr
Patlakh of Coney
Island and charged him
with failure to yield to a
pedestrian and failure to
use due care.
The incident occurred
in the vicinity
of James Madison High
School, which is located
at that intersection. Public
school was not in session
on Monday due to
Martin Luther King Day,
but many private schools
held classes.
Safe streets advocacy
group Transportation
Alternatives decried the
teen’s death and in response
called for street
redesigns, pedestrianizing
roadways, and reducing
the number of vehicles
on city streets.
“We are heartbroken
and angry, and send
our deepest condolences
to the loved ones of the
teenager killed outside
a school in Sheepshead
Bay this morning,” said
TransAlt executive director
Danny Harris in
a statement. “Whether
they are crossing the
street, standing at bus
stops, or being pushed in
strollers, traffi c crashes
continue to kill our kids
and remain the leading
cause of injurious death
for children across New
York City. But, it does
not have to be this way.”
It’s the second fatal
car crash in that vicinity
in two-and-a-half
months. One short block
away, at Bedford and
Kings Highway, 27-yearold
Moldir Zholtay was
struck by a driver in a
Ford van on Oct. 18. She
died nine days later.
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