Dyker Heights, Brooklyn
Child Fatally Struck by Vehicle
Reported Aug 24 at 9:33 PM · Updated Aug 25 at 12:16 PM · 50.8K Viewed
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A 6-year-old was fatally struck by a vehicle in Dyker Heights Tuesday night, police said.
At 8 p.m., the 6-year-old girl was walking across the crosswalk of 67th Street near 12th Avenue with the pedestrian signal in her favor when a vehicle swerved into oncoming traffic and struck her.
EMS personnel transported the girl to an area hospital, where she was later pronounced dead.
NYPD officials said that during a preliminary investigation, police determined the suspect vehicle, a 2017 Lexus GX460, was traveling southbound on 12th Avenue when it crossed over the solid double yellow lines.
While traveling the wrong direction, the driver, a 30-year-old man, then turned left onto 67th Street, at which time he struck the child.
The suspect drove around the block before returning to the scene.
No passengers in the Lexus were injured.
Police arrested the man, and NYPD officials said he faces numerous charges, including Manslaughter, Criminally Negligent Homicide, and Driving Wrong Direction on One Way Street.
An investigation is ongoing.
A 6-year-old was fatally struck by a vehicle in Dyker Heights Tuesday night, police said.
At 8 p.m., the 6-year-old girl was walking across the crosswalk of 67th Street near 12th Avenue with the pedestrian signal in her favor when a vehicle swerved into oncoming traffic and struck her.
EMS personnel transported the girl to an area hospital, where she was later pronounced dead.
NYPD officials said that during a preliminary investigation, police determined the suspect vehicle, a 2017 Lexus GX460, was traveling southbound on 12th Avenue when it crossed over the solid double yellow lines.
While traveling the wrong direction, the driver, a 30-year-old man, then turned left onto 67th Street, at which time he struck the child.
The suspect drove around the block before returning to the scene.
No passengers in the Lexus were injured.
Police arrested the man, and NYPD officials said he faces numerous charges, including Manslaughter, Criminally Negligent Homicide, and Driving Wrong Direction on One Way Street.
An investigation is ongoing.
A 6-year-old was fatally struck by a vehicle in Dyker Heights Tuesday night, police said.
At 8 p.m., the 6-year-old girl was walking across the crosswalk of 67th Street near 12th Avenue with the pedestrian signal in her favor when a vehicle swerved into oncoming traffic and struck her.
EMS personnel transported the girl to an area hospital, where she was later pronounced dead.
NYPD officials said that during a preliminary investigation, police determined the suspect vehicle, a 2017 Lexus GX460, was traveling southbound on 12th Avenue when it crossed over the solid double yellow lines.
While traveling the wrong direction, the driver, a 30-year-old man, then turned left onto 67th Street, at which time he struck the child.
The suspect drove around the block before returning to the scene.
No passengers in the Lexus were injured.
Police arrested the man, and NYPD officials said he faces numerous charges, including Manslaughter, Criminally Negligent Homicide, and Driving Wrong Direction on One Way Street.
An investigation is ongoing.
A 6-year-old was fatally struck by a vehicle in Dyker Heights Tuesday night, police said.
At 8 p.m., the 6-year-old girl was walking across the crosswalk of 67th Street near 12th Avenue with the pedestrian signal in her favor when a vehicle swerved into oncoming traffic and struck her.
EMS personnel transported the girl to an area hospital, where she was later pronounced dead.
NYPD officials said that during a preliminary investigation, police determined the suspect vehicle, a 2017 Lexus GX460, was traveling southbound on 12th Avenue when it crossed over the solid double yellow lines.
While traveling the wrong direction, the driver, a 30-year-old man, then turned left onto 67th Street, at which time he struck the child.
The suspect drove around the block before returning to the scene.
No passengers in the Lexus were injured.
Police arrested the man, and NYPD officials said he faces numerous charges, including Manslaughter, Criminally Negligent Homicide, and Driving Wrong Direction on One Way Street.
An investigation is ongoing.
A 6-year-old was fatally struck by a vehicle in Dyker Heights Tuesday night, police said.
At 8 p.m., the 6-year-old girl was walking across the crosswalk of 67th Street near 12th Avenue with the pedestrian signal in her favor when a vehicle swerved into oncoming traffic and struck her.
EMS personnel transported the girl to an area hospital, where she was later pronounced dead.
NYPD officials said that during a preliminary investigation, police determined the suspect vehicle, a 2017 Lexus GX460, was traveling southbound on 12th Avenue when it crossed over the solid double yellow lines.
While traveling the wrong direction, the driver, a 30-year-old man, then turned left onto 67th Street, at which time he struck the child.
The suspect drove around the block before returning to the scene.
No passengers in the Lexus were injured.
Police arrested the man, and NYPD officials said he faces numerous charges, including Manslaughter, Criminally Negligent Homicide, and Driving Wrong Direction on One Way Street.
An investigation is ongoing.
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People drive so fast and recklessly in this city, thinking they’re invincible. What if this was your kid? SLOW DOWN.
@toosloooww you sound so ignorant and naive and very selfish. Regardless of what rules are there, there were there to share the road and protect drivers and bikers as much as pedestrians. Key word share the road and follow laws. If your being irrational or hate being stuck in traffic then you don’t deserve to drive because this isn’t Need For Speed. This is a city with 8 million + people and regardless of what you might think your excuse is, he took a fkn life. He took a life of a child that could have been yours. A child that could of been your baby sister. Just to go around a few cars, is really selfish and ignorant. Again if you find your self not willing to follow these common laws then you shouldn’t be driving, or move to a city where there’s rarely and traffic and the roads are much wider.
They drive the wrong way all the time in dyker. Instead of going around the block, they'll drive the wrong way and go into their driveway. It happens all the time.
@aznology once every 6 months is still too much. As a father of two little girls, this is so heartbreaking
They drive crazy in bay ridge and dyker all the time. Now a family is mourning their little girl. This has to stop!!
Every driver has to slow down. How do you not notice you hit a child????
People drive so fast and recklessly in this city, thinking they’re invincible. What if this was your kid? SLOW DOWN.
@toosloooww you sound so ignorant and naive and very selfish. Regardless of what rules are there, there were there to share the road and protect drivers and bikers as much as pedestrians. Key word share the road and follow laws. If your being irrational or hate being stuck in traffic then you don’t deserve to drive because this isn’t Need For Speed. This is a city with 8 million + people and regardless of what you might think your excuse is, he took a fkn life. He took a life of a child that could have been yours. A child that could of been your baby sister. Just to go around a few cars, is really selfish and ignorant. Again if you find your self not willing to follow these common laws then you shouldn’t be driving, or move to a city where there’s rarely and traffic and the roads are much wider.
They drive the wrong way all the time in dyker. Instead of going around the block, they'll drive the wrong way and go into their driveway. It happens all the time.
@aznology once every 6 months is still too much. As a father of two little girls, this is so heartbreaking
They drive crazy in bay ridge and dyker all the time. Now a family is mourning their little girl. This has to stop!!
Every driver has to slow down. How do you not notice you hit a child????
People drive so fast and recklessly in this city, thinking they’re invincible. What if this was your kid? SLOW DOWN.
@toosloooww you sound so ignorant and naive and very selfish. Regardless of what rules are there, there were there to share the road and protect drivers and bikers as much as pedestrians. Key word share the road and follow laws. If your being irrational or hate being stuck in traffic then you don’t deserve to drive because this isn’t Need For Speed. This is a city with 8 million + people and regardless of what you might think your excuse is, he took a fkn life. He took a life of a child that could have been yours. A child that could of been your baby sister. Just to go around a few cars, is really selfish and ignorant. Again if you find your self not willing to follow these common laws then you shouldn’t be driving, or move to a city where there’s rarely and traffic and the roads are much wider.
They drive the wrong way all the time in dyker. Instead of going around the block, they'll drive the wrong way and go into their driveway. It happens all the time.
@aznology once every 6 months is still too much. As a father of two little girls, this is so heartbreaking
They drive crazy in bay ridge and dyker all the time. Now a family is mourning their little girl. This has to stop!!
Every driver has to slow down. How do you not notice you hit a child????
People drive so fast and recklessly in this city, thinking they’re invincible. What if this was your kid? SLOW DOWN.
@toosloooww you sound so ignorant and naive and very selfish. Regardless of what rules are there, there were there to share the road and protect drivers and bikers as much as pedestrians. Key word share the road and follow laws. If your being irrational or hate being stuck in traffic then you don’t deserve to drive because this isn’t Need For Speed. This is a city with 8 million + people and regardless of what you might think your excuse is, he took a fkn life. He took a life of a child that could have been yours. A child that could of been your baby sister. Just to go around a few cars, is really selfish and ignorant. Again if you find your self not willing to follow these common laws then you shouldn’t be driving, or move to a city where there’s rarely and traffic and the roads are much wider.
They drive the wrong way all the time in dyker. Instead of going around the block, they'll drive the wrong way and go into their driveway. It happens all the time.
@aznology once every 6 months is still too much. As a father of two little girls, this is so heartbreaking
They drive crazy in bay ridge and dyker all the time. Now a family is mourning their little girl. This has to stop!!
Every driver has to slow down. How do you not notice you hit a child????
People drive so fast and recklessly in this city, thinking they’re invincible. What if this was your kid? SLOW DOWN.
@toosloooww you sound so ignorant and naive and very selfish. Regardless of what rules are there, there were there to share the road and protect drivers and bikers as much as pedestrians. Key word share the road and follow laws. If your being irrational or hate being stuck in traffic then you don’t deserve to drive because this isn’t Need For Speed. This is a city with 8 million + people and regardless of what you might think your excuse is, he took a fkn life. He took a life of a child that could have been yours. A child that could of been your baby sister. Just to go around a few cars, is really selfish and ignorant. Again if you find your self not willing to follow these common laws then you shouldn’t be driving, or move to a city where there’s rarely and traffic and the roads are much wider.
They drive the wrong way all the time in dyker. Instead of going around the block, they'll drive the wrong way and go into their driveway. It happens all the time.
@aznology once every 6 months is still too much. As a father of two little girls, this is so heartbreaking
They drive crazy in bay ridge and dyker all the time. Now a family is mourning their little girl. This has to stop!!
Every driver has to slow down. How do you not notice you hit a child????
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