Police cuffed an out-of-state box truck driver who fatally struck an elderly man at a deadly intersection in a Williamsburg crash Tuesday morning.
Maryland resident Torriez Bailey, 44, was driving the heavy hauler east on Flushing Avenue and made a left turn onto Bedford Avenue at 6:34 a.m. on Oct. 4, hitting 63-year-old Benjamin Berger as he was crossing the street at the intersection just down the block from his home, according to cops.
Paramedics found Berger with severe head and body injuries and pronounced him dead at the scene.
Cops arrested Bailey for failing to yield and failing to use due care, according to an NYPD spokesperson.
Surveillance footage posted by the social media account Williamsburg News shows the truck hitting the elder Brooklynite as he crosses the street with the walk sign on.
Berger is the second senior pedestrian to die in a crash at the intersection over the past 11 years. In 2011, 62-year-old Meilech Weiss was struck and killed by a Mitsubishi sedan driver.
Since that year, there have been 51 crashes injuring 67 people at that junction alone, according to collision data collected by the website Crash Mapper.
Update (Wednesday, Oct. 5, 9:43 a.m.): This story has been updated to include the victim’s identity.
