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COURIER L 12 IFE, FEBRUARY 4-10, 2022
Truck critically
injures teen on
deadly Coney
Island Avenue
The scene of the crash on Coney Island Avenue on Jan. 27.
BY BEN BRACHFELD
A 13-year-old girl is
fi ghting for her life after
the driver of a box
truck hit her on the notoriously
deadly Coney Island
Avenue in Midwood
on Thursday morning.
Police arrived at the
scene near Coney Island
Avenue and Avenue J at
around 7:30 am, where
they found the teen lying
in the roadway with severe
bodily trauma, said
NYPD spokesperson Detective
Martin Brown.
EMS personnel
rushed the girl to Maimonides
Medical Center,
where she remains
in critical condition, according
to police.
Initial investigations
revealed the teen
was crossing the street,
though not in the crosswalk,
the white truck
smashed into her.
The driver of the
vehicle remained on
the scene, and has not
been charged with any
crimes, though an investigation
remains ongoing,
according to Brown.
PIX 11 reports that
Photo by Lloyd Mitchell
the teen was exiting an
MTA bus just before the
collision, though the
NYPD spokesperson
could not confi rm that.
A B68 bus could be
seen parked at the crash
site right behind the box
truck after the incident,
and MTA investigators
were also on scene.
Midwood’s stretch
of Coney Island Avenue
has been a deadly corridor
over the past decade:
seven people lost
their lives at intersections
along Coney Island
Avenue, in the stretch
between Ditmas Avenue
and Kings Highway between
2011 and 2021, according
to NYC Crash
Mapper.
The immediate area of
Thursday’s crash is particularly
deadly, as four
other people were killed
in crashes within one
block of the intersection
where Thursday’s tragedy
happened, and 39 others
have been injured in
27 crashes over the past
decade in that area.
Additional reporting by
Lloyd Mitchell
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