A senior citizen who was struck by an unlicensed driver earlier this month died from her injuries over the weekend.
According to police, 101-year-old Taibel Brod of Sterling Street in Crown Heights succumbed to her injuries at Maimonides Medical Center on April 20, about two weeks after the crash.
Brod was crossing the street with a walk signal at the intersection of Brooklyn Avenue and Montgomery Street on the evening of April 8 when the driver, 65-year-old Menachem Shaglow, struck her in the crosswalk while turning left onto Montgomery Street from Brooklyn Avenue in a Yukon GMC SUV, per the NYPD.
Officers from the 71st Precinct rushed to the scene after getting a 911 call about the collision. Brod, who had sustained head injuries in the crash, was brought by ambulance to Maimonides Medical Center, where she remained until her death.
Shaglow was arrested shortly after the incident and charged with aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, failure to exercise due care and unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle.
Brod — who was reportedly 99 years old, not 101, as police stated — was born in Ukraine, according to an obituary, and fled to Poland during World War II. She met and married her husband, Chatzkel Brod, while living in the Poking displaced persons camp in Germany. She was survived by her five children and three generations of grandchildren, great grandchildren, and great-great-grandchildren.
The collision occurred just one week after a driver with a suspended license struck and killed a mother and her two daughters as they were crossing Ocean Parkway in Midwood.
The suspect in the incident, 32-year-old Miriam Yarimi, has since been indicted for manslaughter and other charges in Brooklyn Supreme Court.
At least eleven pedestrians have been killed in vehicle crashes in Brooklyn this year, NYPD data shows.
A version of this story first appeared on Brooklyn Paper’s sister site amNewYork.
