Reckless drivers killed two people and sent two others to hospitals with critical injuries in four crashes over a bloody 26-hour span in Brooklyn, police said Saturday.
Two hit-and-run drivers, a drunken motorist and an inattentive ice cream truck operator were responsible for the carnage, said cops.
A homeless man in his 60s crossing E. 108th St. near Farragut Road in Canarsie was run down by a hit-and-run driver. (Theodore Parisienne/for New York Daily News)
The bloodshed began at 2:15 a.m. Friday when a hit-and-run driver slammed into 43-year-old Bernadine Lewis as she operated a motorized scooter on Throop Ave. in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
The car, described by witnesses as a dark colored Hyundai sedan, plowed into Lewis at Lexington Ave. EMS rushed her to Kings County Hospital, but she couldn’t be saved. Cops were still looking for the Hyundai driver Saturday.
About fifteen hours later, at 5:30 p.m., Myroslav Iakymovych, 34, was arrested for running over his 41-year-old wife on E. 16th St. near Ave. X in Sheepshead Bay. Witnesses said the two were arguing when Iakymovych started to roll away in his Genesis SUV.
At 5:30 p.m. Friday, Myroslav Iakymovych, 34, was arrested for running over his 41-year-old wife on E. 16th St. near Ave. X in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. Witnesses said the two were arguing when Iakymovych started to roll away in his Genesis SUV. (Gardiner Anderson/for New York Daily News)
His wife grabbed the open door, but lost the tug-of-war with the SUV and fell under its back wheels. She was rushed to NYU-Langone Hospital-Brooklyn, where she remained in critical condition Saturday.
Ten miles away, at 6:45 p.m. Friday, 11-year-old Tyson Anderson was injured when a Mister Softee truck struck him as he bicycled along Hendrix St. at Sutter Ave. in East New York.
Tyson was reported in critical condition at Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center.
The Mister Softee truck’s driver, Juan Rimigio, 58, remained at the scene of the crash and was arrested for driving on a suspended license and other charges.
11-year-old Tyson Anderson was struck and dragged by a Mister Softee truck as he pedaled his bike along Hendrix St. at Sutter Ave. in East New York, Brooklyn on Friday. (Gardiner Anderson/for New York Daily News)
The roadway violence ended about 4 a.m. Saturday, when a homeless man in his 60s crossing E. 108th St. near Farragut Road in Canarsie was run down by a hit-and-run driver.
Cops found the unidentified victim sprawled out in the street, the NYPD said. He died at the scene. No arrests have been made.
A homeless man in his 60s crossing E. 108th St. near Farragut Road in Canarsie was run down by a hit-and-run driver Saturday morning. (Theodore Parisienne/for New York Daily News)
Vehicle crash deaths are down in the city so far this year, the NYPD says.
As of Thursday, 107 people have been killed in car crashes, eight fewer than this time last year, cops said.
Pedestrian fatalities in the five boroughs have dropped 22%, from 62 at this point in 2021 to 48 so far in 2022, NYPD statistics show. Six bicyclists and five people on electric scooters and other electric devices have died so far this year ― the same as died in the same period of 2021, the data show.
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