COURIER LIFE, OCTOBER 1-7, 2021 17
90-year-old
dead after Ocean
Parkway crash
Police investigate a collision that left one person dead and
another with serious injuries at Ocean Parkway and Avenue
U on Sept. 28. Photo by Lloyd Mitchell
BY BEN BRACHFELD
A 90-year-old woman
has died after being
struck by a driver on
Ocean Parkway in Gravesend
on Sept. 28.
Cops say the victim
was walking with a 61-
year-old woman near the
corner of Ocean Parkway
and Avenue U at around
12:20 pm when both were
struck by a driver in a
black Subaru SUV.
Both women were
transported to Maimonides
Medical Center in
Borough Park, where the
elder woman was listed
in critical condition
Tuesday and the younger
woman was listed in stable
condition. The elder
victim, later identifi ed
as Rahel Guindi, succumbed
to her injuries
following the crash.
The driver remained
on the scene after the incident,
and police say an
investigation is ongoing.
The driver has racked
up 24 parking violations
and one speed camera
violation since 2013, according
to plate search.
NYC Crash Mapper
shows that the intersection
of Ocean Parkway
and Avenue U has seen
18 people injured in 16
car crashes since 2016.
DELTA
all 66,856 are fully vaccinated,
but the positivity
rate there between Sept.
15-21 was up to 4.36 percent.
Borough Park, whose
7-day positivity rate of
6.44 percent leads the
city, also has a fully vaccinated
rate of 42 percent,
with just 46 percent
of residents having received
at least one dose.
The more contagious
and potent Delta variant
remains the dominant
strain of COVID-19 in
the entire city, detected
in 99 percent of positive
COVID-19 cases tested.
If you test positive for
the virus, it’s safe to assume
at this point that
you were hit with the
Delta variant.
The vaccines, however,
continue to remain
effective in combating
the spread, as demonstrated
by the reported
decreases in positivity
and confi rmed COVID-19
infections.
Still, the virus remains
a lethal threat to
the unvaccinated, who
make up about 97 percent
of all COVID-19 hospitalizations
across the
city. The New York State
Department of Health
reported another eight
COVID-19 deaths in
New York City on Sept.
25, including two in the
Bronx, three in Brooklyn,
two in Queens and
one on Staten Island.
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