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Woman, 67, is killed and four people – including a child – are injured as driver plows into crowd of pedestrians in Brooklyn
- A 67-year-old woman passed away at the scene and another was left in a critical condition
- Two others suffered serious injuries and another victim had minor injuries
- FDNY said the vehicle hit the crowd just after 7pm at Macon Street, Brooklyn
- The driver is not among the injured and is not in custody
One woman has died and four were injured after a car struck a group of pedestrians in New York City.
One of the victims passed away, she was a 67 year old woman, another was in critical condition, two suffered serious injuries and another had minor injuries.
An NYPD spokesperson told DailyMail.com that the driver is not among the injured and is not in custody.
FDNY said the vehicle hit the crowd just after 7pm at 163 Macon Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn. DailyMail.com has reached out to the FDNY for further information on the incident.
This was the scene around 7:00 pm at Macon Street and Ralph Avenue
The female victim was pronounced dead at the scene.
Cops, firefighters and ambulances swooped on the scene and taped off the entrance to the road.
At least one of the victims was a child, according to the New York Daily News.
The crash occurred in front of the BLM deli. An employee of the store told DailyMail.com that he was inside the store working when the crash occurred.
He said that he as a male child of around 10 years old laid out on the street following the crash. The employee said there was a lot of blood but he couldn’t tell where it was coming from.
The employee also said that the security cameras outside of the deli would have got the incident and that investigators have seized the tapes.
It has been a bloody 48 hours on New York City’s streets already with two people having been killed and two other hospitalized in separate incidents.
In one of those incidents, a man was charged with assault and DWI after allegedly hitting his wife with his car following an argument.
On Friday evening, an 11-year-old boy was critically injured when he was hit by an ice cream truck while he was riding his bicycle.
One witness said :’There were a lot of people in the store scared and crying. saw a little boy, about 10 years old, in the street lying down. He didn’t look good’
An NYPD spokesperson told DailyMail.com that the driver is not among the injured and is not in custody
The incident occurred here at the intersection of Ralph Avenue and Macon Street
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