An 87-year-old woman is dead after she was hit by a car left running in Gravesend on Wednesday afternoon.
According to preliminary police investigation, the victim was attempting to park their car in a driveway on the 2100 block of West 10th Street at 2:57 p.m., but didn’t put the car in park — causing it to roll back and strike the victim, identified Thursday as local resident Joan Behan, who was walking behind it.
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Firefighters from Engine Company 253, Tower Ladder 153 and NYPD’s Emergency Truck 6 and NYPD officers — who were alerted to the incident through a 911 call — found the victim pinned under the vehicle, according to eyewitnesses at the scene.
Paramedics transported her to NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn with severe head and torso injuries. She was pronounced dead shortly after.
According to Citizen, a personal safety network that allows anyone with the app to post real-time details on suspected crimes, the driver fled the scene on foot. The NYPD’s Highway Collision Investigation was on the scene and is actively investigating the incident.
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So far this year, four traffic fatalities have been reported in the 61st Precinct, which includes Gravesend, according to the latest police statistics — twice the number of deaths reported by the same time in 2023. A whopping 17 traffic fatalities have been reported across Brooklyn as of April 7, the data show.
Last week, a bus driver was killed in a hit-and-run as he stepped out of his car in East New York — and a 47-year-old man died two weeks after he was hit by a driver while riding his bicycle in Midwood.