Tragedy strikes in Greenpoint
Hit-and-run Rolls-Royce driver kills pedestrian on McGuinness
BY KEVIN DUGGAN
The driver of a Rolls-
Royce hit and killed a man
on McGuinness Boulevard
in Greenpoint early Tuesday
morning, according to police.
The 58-year-old victim was
crossing the fi ve-lane roadway
at Bayard Street when
the motorist heading south in
the black luxury sedan fatally
struck the pedestrian at 12:45
am, according to the Police
Department.
The driver fl ed the scene
and police have not made any
arrests.
Responding paramedics
found the man with severe
wounds and rushed him to
Woodhull Hospital, where he
was pronounced dead.
The victim, whose name
police have not yet released
pending family notifi cation,
walked eastbound in the crosswalk
at Bayard Street against
the walk signal, according to
investigators with NYPD’s
Collision Investigation Squad.
A Department spokesperson
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could not clarify how the
investigators knew the pedestrian
jay-walked or how they
determined the brand of the
vehicle.
The intersection is right
next to an entrance to the
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway
and there have been four collisions
with an equal amount of
injuries there during the past
decade, according to the website
NYC Crash Mapper. Just a
block away at Meeker Avenue,
20 crashes have left 27 people
injured, according to the online
tracker.
McGuinness Boulevard
has long been known as a notorious
Greenpoint speedway
splitting the north Brooklyn
nabe in half.
The city’s Department of
Transportation in 2014 designated
the roadway as a socalled
Arterial Slow Zone,
lowering the speed limit to 25
miles-per-hour and using signal
timing changes to discourage
speeding.
Brooklyn has been rocked
The intersection of McGuinness Boulevard and Bayard Street in Greenpoint. Google Maps
by a string of fatal hit-andruns
during the past month,
notably two in one day on Feb.
24, when a bus driver hit and
killed six-year-old boy Shimon
Fried outside his Williamsburg
home and in the evening,
a motorist hit 31-year-old Imorne
Horton, who was crossing
the dangerous Hamilton
Avenue at Court Street on his
way home to Red Hook.
The city’s Police Department
has come under fi re from
safe streets advocates for failing
to cuff motorists mowing
down pedestrians and driving
away. In 2020, NYPD made
arrests in less than 1 percent
of hit and runs, and the City
Council in March passed a law
to transfer the lead in serious
crash investigations over to the
Department of Transportation.
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