A lead-footed driver in Brooklyn struck and killed a 36-year-old man attempting to cross a deadly thoroughfare on Monday.
Police said the man was in the crosswalk on Linden Boulevard at Ashford Street in East New York when he was mowed down by a driver traveling eastbound on Linden at about 1:20 p.m. on March 18.
The man, who was not immediately identified by police, was taken to Brookdale University Hospital, where he was pronounced deceased just before 2 p.m.
The 59-year-old male driver remained on the scene, police said, and criminality was not immediately suspected. The driver had slammed into the pedestrian with such great force, however, that his car’s windshield had been smashed.
The license plate on the driver’s Chevy sedan has racked up 10 camera-issued speeding tickets since 2021, including 8 just in the past year, according to a review on How’s My Driving NY. He’s also gotten two bus lane tickets and one red light ticket.
Linden Boulevard is a notoriously deadly thoroughfare, particularly east of Kings Highway where it widens to six lanes plus access roads and where Monday’s deadly collision occurred.
Crashes on that stretch have killed 22 people in the past decade, including 13 pedestrians, 6 motorists, and 3 cyclists, according to NYC Crash Mapper. More than 3,600 people have been injured in the same time frame.
The intersection of Linden and Ashford alone has seen two people killed in the past decade and 10 injured, including one just two weeks ago, according to News 12.
Linden Boulevard was declared a “Vision Zero Priority Corridor” under the de Blasio administration, which promised safety improvements to the deadly road. Concrete pedestrian islands have been expanded and tactile warning strips added, but otherwise little has changed at Linden and Ashford in the years since.
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