A walker crossing the Grand Concourse in the Bronx was killed after being struck by an SUV, adding another fatality to a particularly dramatic week on New York asphalt. with at least five pedestrian fatalities in four days.
The driver of a 47-year-old Ford Explorer was heading north when he struck the victim on E. 198th St. around 10 p.m. Thursday, it reported. Daily News.
The deceased had no identification. but police believe his age was in his 40s. The driver remained on the scene and was not charged, but the investigation was ongoing, according to the NYPD.
The night before, Wednesday, Elizabeth “Liz” Pérez died at age 60 while crossing a street in Brooklyn (NYC) and was struck by a young Hispanic driver without a license who hit and run and was later arrested. The suspect was identified as 24-year-old Yerlin Garcia.
Perez was the second older woman to be struck and killed in NYC within a few hours, after a 72-year-old woman was struck by a motorcycle in The Bronx Wednesday afternoon.
Two people were killed and five more injured Monday night when a speeding driver ran a red light in Brooklyn.
Previously, at the beginning of March, a devoted grandmother and mother of six children died protecting one of them by putting up a shield in front of the driver of a truck that ran over them when running a red light in Coney Island (Brooklyn) and then gave up. The escape.
In addition to gun violence, traffic accidents are another big challenge for Mayor Eric Adams. This despite “Vision Zero” (Vision Zero), traffic safety plan created in 2014 by 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.
But 2022 was a disastrous year on New York asphalt in all five boroughs. From January 1 to July 31, some 150 people died in road accidents, according to the city’s Department of Transportation (DOT). Particularly there was a 129% increase in hit and run incidents.
New York City had already experienced in April 2022 a 35% increase in traffic accidents, alerted NYPD. At the end of that month there was a tragic streak to an average of one person killed by being run over every day.
