A 46-year-old pedestrian died dramatically after being hit by two cars last night in Brooklyn (NYC) and both drivers fled.
According to authorities, the unidentified man was first struck around 10:30 p.m. Monday at the corner of 37th Street and Fort Hamilton Parkway by a Honda CR-V while crossing the street and the driver followed. Shortly after, the victim was hit by another car, a minivan, which also did not stop.
This morning portal Citizen App public a video where NYPD officials can be seen marking the scene next to the deceased. Police are searching for both drivers and have not yet established whether speeding was a factor, he stressed. ABC News.
After the fatal accident, the pedestrian and cyclist advocacy group Transportation Alternatives, condemned the attack through a statement. “This intersection is missing even the most basic safe streets infrastructure. The intersection lacks turn control, daylighting, sidewalk extensions, pedestrian advance intervals (a 5- to 7-second head start for pedestrians before cars can turn), lights retimed at 25 mph, or even sidewalks at both. sides of the street.”
“We know how to prevent these tragedies, but New York City leaves many of its intersections dangerous and even deadly. Clearly, the city must also take steps to hold these hit-and-run drivers accountable. We cannot allow them to escape justice and accountability,” said Elizabeth Adams, spokesperson for Transportation Alternatives.
“Last month, the City let the Dangerous Vehicle Abatement Program – a critical program that required repeat drivers to take a safety course or impound their cars – expire without any plan to strengthen or reauthorize it. . “These reckless drivers are making our streets less safe, and our elected leadership must do more to protect New Yorkers from both dangerous drivers and dangerous streets,” Adams added.
Anyone with information about this accident or the drivers involved should call at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) and in Spanish 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). Also through the page crimestoppers.nypdonline.org or by text message to 274637 (CRIMES), followed by TIP577. All communications are strictly confidential.
In a similar case, in December Luis Leonardo Saguay, a 49-year-old Ecuadorian father, was hit and killed several times while walking from a party to his daughter’s house in Corona, Queens (NYC). Also that month a young woman was killed when she was hit first by a hit-and-run driver and then by an MTA bus in the Upper East Side de Manhattan.
The authorities remember that there is zero tolerance for drivers who drive at excess speed and/or under the influence of alcohol and drugs..
Traffic accidents are a great challenge in New York. This despite “Vision Zero” road safety plan created in 2014 by the then new mayor Bill de Blasio, who promised to make the city safer for pedestrians, cyclists and motorists with a goal of zero deaths by 2024. According to the NYPD, Cyclist deaths increased 260% in the first six months of 2023 and 325% since the implementation of the “Vision Zero” plan in 2014. In many cases the drivers flee.
Incidents between pedestrians and cyclists, some fatal, are also frequent. In September, 69-year-old teacher Priscilla Loke was killed by an electric bicycle in a crosswalk in Chinatown. The rider fled, even though the accident happened in front of an NYPD patrol car in broad daylight.
Even with more signs and designated lanes, in recent years NYC has seen a increase in collisions where bicycle and scooter drivers are both victims and aggressors, hitting pedestrians, disrespecting traffic lights and even the direction of the roads. It is also common to see them on the sidewalks at high speed and without lights or helmets.
2023-11-14 17:34:00
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