BY JESSICA PARKS AND
ROSE ADAMS
Motorists fatally struck
three women in less than 24
hours in separate traffi c accidents
across the borough.
The fi rst incident came on
Wednesday at around 10:30
am in Clinton Hill, when an
elderly driver behind the
wheel of a 1996 Ford Bronco
smashed into a 67-year-old
grandmother, who was in the
crosswalk near Lafayette Avenue
and St. James Place, according
to authorities. First
responders rushed the woman
to Brooklyn Hospital with
multiple traumatic injuries,
and doctors pronounced her
dead.
Hours later, a 67-year-old
woman was crossing 86th
Street in Bensonhurst midblock,
when a private sanitation
truck hit her near Bay
Parkway at around 4 am on
Thursday — reportedly splitting
the victim’s body in half,
according to several users on
the crime-reporting Citizen
app. The driver of the truck
had fl ed the scene before police
arrived, according to authorities,
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who pronounced the
victim dead on the scene.
Borough President Eric Adams
took to Twitter to demand
accountability for the driver,
and call for better safety measures
to protect pedestrians.
“The hit and run driver
that struck a pedestrian in
Bensonhurst must be brought
to justice,” Adams said. “The
Department of Transportation
must act TODAY to implement
quick fi x safety improvements
to address this crisis at
dangerous intersections like
Flatlands and Flatbush, and
throughout the city.”
Hours after that incident, a
morning commuter in Marine
Park forced her way off a moving
B41 bus, when she hit a
pole on the sidewalk — before
being run over by the bus, according
to Deputy Police Chief
Charles Scholl.
“The passenger was on the
city bus, she attempted to get
off because she missed her
stop, she became a little irate
and the door fell open and she
fell out and she went under
the rear wheels,” Scholl said.
“At this time, it appears to be
no fault of the operator of the
bus and its another tragedy of
people not being careful putting
themselves in harms way,
tragic loss of life that should’ve
been avoided.”
First responders arrived
on the scene near Flatlands
and Flatbush avenues at
around 9 am, and pronounced
the victim dead on the scene.
The MTA said the collision remains
under investigation.
The most recent incident
marks the eighth pedestrian
death citywide of 2020, after
the conclusion of a particularly
deadly year last year —
which saw 218 traffi c-related
deaths, including 28 bicyclist
and 121 pedestrian fatalities.
The cycle of death began when the
driver behind the wheel of a Ford
Bronco fatally struck a woman in
Clinton Hill. Photo by Todd Maisel
A woman was fatally struck by a bus in Marine Park on Thursday morning,
becoming the third pedestrian fatally struck in Brooklyn in less than
24 hours. Photo by Todd Maisel
24 hours of horror
Drivers slay three pedestrians in less than a day
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