Hit-and-run driver kills 62-year-old pedestrian in East New York
A driver in a sedan hit and killed a 62-year-old woman near Pennsylvania Avenue and Linden Boulevard in Brooklyn, then fled, police told reporters.
What We Know
A driver in a sedan was traveling south on Pennsylvania Avenue near Linden Boulevard at about 1 a.m. on March 8, 2022, when the driver hit a 62-year-old woman crossing the avenue in East New York. Police told reporters the driver fled in a light-colored sedan, and emergency responders pronounced the woman dead at the scene. The official crash record lists one pedestrian death and no other injuries, and the vehicle record lists a male, unlicensed driver in a sedan.
Police described a fatal hit-and-run before dawn.
The crash happened at about 1 a.m. on March 8, 2022, near Pennsylvania Avenue and Linden Boulevard in East New York. Police told reporters a driver heading south on Pennsylvania Avenue hit a 62-year-old woman who was crossing the avenue, then fled in a light-colored sedan.
Emergency responders found the woman in the roadway with severe head injuries and pronounced her dead at the scene, according to amNewYork. The official record lists one pedestrian killed and no other reported injuries.
The official record identified the victim as a 62-year-old pedestrian.
The city crash record lists the person killed as a 62-year-old female pedestrian. Police had not released her name in the immediate reports reviewed for this page.
The official vehicle record lists the sedan’s driver as male and unlicensed. The New York Post reported that police were investigating the hit-and-run and that no arrests had been made at the time of its report.
Reports focused on a mid-block crossing and a fleeing driver.
Police told reporters the woman was crossing Pennsylvania Avenue outside marked crosswalks and appeared to stumble or fall before the driver hit her. The official pedestrian record also places her away from an intersection.
The official vehicle record says the driver was going straight south before the crash, and the left front of the sedan was damaged.
The crash site sits on a high-injury Brooklyn corridor.
The collision occurred near Pennsylvania Avenue and Linden Boulevard in Brooklyn, at the edge of a wide arterial crossing in East New York described in press reports as a long-dangerous block for pedestrians.
CrashCountNYC’s location context for Linden Boulevard in Brooklyn counted 2,223 crashes, 1,585 injuries, 64 serious injuries and 8 deaths from the start of 2022 through June 1, 2026.