A man was run over — twice — by two reckless drivers at a dangerous Queens intersection on Saturday night, first by a car owner who clipped him in a crosswalk and then by a second driver who rolled over the wounded man with his massive SUV with both sets of wheels before apparently leaving him for dead.
According to police and a horrifying video later posted to TikTok, the 57-year-old pedestrian was crossing Cypress Avenue from west to east at about 6:35 p.m. when the 40-year-old driver of a white crossover SUV, making the tight left turn from Cooper Avenue, clipped the pedestrian, knocking him to the pavement.
While the man was stunned and writhing, the 62-year-old driver of a huge assault car drove over the victim, first running over his head with his front left tire and then crushing the man’s entire body with his rear wheels.
The man was still breathing when cops found him minutes later. He was taken to Jamaica Hospital. Several local websites, including Queens Crap, report that the man died of his injuries, but police declined to comment.
The driver of the white car was issued a summons for failure to yield. It is unclear what happened to the driver of the black SUV, which delivered the life-threatening injuries. The NYPD declined to provide further details.
A close review of the video suggests that the driver of the black SUV did not see the pedestrian get knocked down because he was looking forward as he watched oncoming traffic from Cooper Avenue and waited make his left turn onto Cypress. When he made the left turn, he took the turn sharply to avoid a car that had made a right turn from Cooper onto Cypress. A driver of an SUV that large would not likely have seen the man in the roadway unless he was specifically looking for him.
The intersection of Cooper and Cypress avenues, near the border of Glendale, Queens and Ridgewood and Bushwick in Brooklyn, is a known danger zone for pedestrians. In the eight years of the de Blasio administration, there were 153 reported crashes at that one intersection, injuring seven cyclists, 10 pedestrians and 56 motorists, according to city stats. The crashes seem to be frequently caused by car drivers making left turns from Cooper on
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41 comments:
Not an accident. This is cold blooded killing. The guy should at minimum be charged with negligent or reckless homicide. He rolled over the pedestrian's head with his front tire. He knew he hit something and drove over the pedestrian again with his back tires. The driver needs to spend the next 10 years in prison and have his license permanently revoked.
Cops are calling it an accident because treating it like a crime would force them to actually do some work. And it'd make their precinct crime statistics look worse.
"The driver 100% saw a person lying in the path..."
Really? Maybe the driver was watching the vehicle that was behind the white one to prevent crashing into it in this chaotic situation?
"The driver 100% saw a person lying in the path in front of their vehicle" -- amazing mind-reading abilities!
Invite the third world into your country, and you become the third world. I'd love to know the origins of the SUV driver. But I guess since it was an "accident," we'll never know.
Poor guy, life is cheap in the third world.
These aren't cars. They're tanks and shouldn't be on city streets. It's a joke that these drivers aren't held accountable. "Accident" my ass. Lazy ass cops. Over paid and under-worked socialists. Don't defund them. Fire them. Replace them with people who want to work (a.k.a. immigrants).
Wonder if there will be civil suits out of this. They both have nice cars, they probably have some money.
Same shit as always when they don't stop.
Likely illegal immigrant or some person with 3 prior DWIs at the wheel. Driving drunk, no license, no insurance or all of the above. Maybe wanted by ICE warrant don't want to get caught (jailed then deported) or face felony for 4th DWI.
"It will all depend on the perpetrator’s identity characteristics" lol
@Lazy ass cops. Over paid and under-worked socialists. Don't defund them. Fire them. Replace them with people who want to work (a.k.a. immigrants).
Says the lazy CCP drone. Go f yourself punk. Take a booster and expire.
Not an accident.
@These aren't cars.
By the same definition you are not human. CCP drone.
The lapdog CCP drones forget the recent incident from Harlem where one person was beaten so badly he lost consciousness then the perps ran him over.
https://nypost.com/2022/02/06/man-attacked-in-nyc-gang-assault-then-run-over-by-vehicle/
Just another day for the commie car totalitarians who insist on driving vehicles as big as school buses in this city. Lock them up and throw away the keys.
Defund the automotive industry
All cars are bastards
This is Leftoid city ! Blaming the car and not the driver...
At Georgethesocialist. Watch the recording of the accident before typing absurdities...
I live in Ridgewood and I confirm:it is full of TROGLODITES!!!!!
The roads are now worst than they ever were before. You add bike lanes along with too much over development then this is what you get. There are way too many fucking people in this city and no room for cars and pedestrians to live together in harmony anymore. I remember back in my parents house in the 80s, you can play ball in the street without even one car coming down our block. And now if you go there, you see so many cars due to "two family houses". Not to mention that alot of people in this city drive without a license because they are a bunch of third worlders who don't speak English and don't give a shit about the driving laws. And what did lowering the speed limit around the city do? Absolutely nothing. The people who do speed don't even own the cars that they drive and good luck finding the owner of the cars or even finding out who is even driving the car. Because guess what if you ask them their name and they "no speak English", you can't say anything back to them or call the cops on them because then you'd be considered "racist". Nyc is a fucking joke anymore.
Just another day for the commie car totalitarians who insist on driving vehicles as big as school buses in this city. Lock them up and throw away the keys.
You need to be locked up in Creedmore. Bike commie. robinetteturd.
@“ The roads are now worst than they ever were before.”
No they’re not. Trump fixed all that. Now they’re wonderful roads. Everyone’s saying it.
It’s all the bikes fault.
When you are making a left turn into a horn-blaring busy intersection, your eyes are on the normal immediate traffic coming at you - not a body lying in the street with your view blocked by your hood.
And tell me now Ashli Babbitt was telling Zach Alam to cool it before she leapt through the broken glass of the door.
The comments here are disgusting
The lapdog CCP drones are brain dead trolls. Ignore them and don't reply.
ron s said...
Lowering the speed limit further around the city and more red light cameras will save lives.
"They both have nice cars, they probably have some money"
Likely not, its just the opposite.
These car company's banks been dishing out credit to anybody, especially people who cant afford it. I know a section 8 of 22 year old single Hispanic mother of 4 driving a brand new leased Jaguar SUV.
She qualified for all this free money, free credit and crap because she has 4 kids.
She's not even an American citizen
Me as a working single white male from 4 generations of born Americans I can not get free stuff, free healthcare, free rent and government perks.
@"You add bike lanes"
Yes, this butchery was all because of bike lanes. If there were no bike lanes, then we'd all be safe crossing streets.
So says another car totalitarian who really believes that passing the New York driving test is actually a qualification to drive. It's actually just a qualification to drive around an empty block and park a car with loads of space. Not a qualification to drive a tank through city streets.
"I live in Ridgewood and I confirm:it is full of TROGLODITES"
Its hell and it so sad.
I had to dump a nice Stier house on Seneca ave because of all the shit.
Ridgewood to me became like living in a cemetery, everybody you knew, grandparents are gone. The buildings, front stoops have been bastardized with assorted color paint, brick and bling.
And worst is most the people look like freaks, I knew Ridgewood had lots of Slavic but never saw this new bunch of people. Appears to be some mix of eastern block European, (odd bony faces, high cheekbones, pointy chins,) then your blends of Black and Hispanic.
You walk 5 blocks on Myrtle ave in trash & dogshit not hearing one single person speaking English.
My best words: Where am I and what kind of hell is this ?
Nothing sacred, Even the pizza is ruined, Both Joe & John and Coratos on Fresh pond were big disappointments. You pay $8 or so dollars and get handed dried up reheated slices. I'm told this this because due to multicultural needs you have 6 or so different types of cold pies behind glass counters where the hispanic cooks have it all hopped on pepper and shit like people like in Mexico. Served old and reheated too !!
To me Ridgewood is gone, once you have a more prospective view returning is like going to a run down di-crappit graveyard. Its weird, so many who still live there cant see or refuse to see as in may other places.
-Joe
@"And worst is most the people look like freaks, I knew Ridgewood had lots of Slavic but never saw this new bunch of people. Appears to be some mix of eastern block European, (odd bony faces, high cheekbones, pointy chins,) then your blends of Black and Hispanic"
I feel so bad for you Crazy Joe. All those East Europeans and dark skinned people in your old neighborhood. If only TrumpTurd had 4 more years, he'd have exterminated them all for you. At least you still got "Angry Zoe" to console you.
This is Leftoid city ! Blaming the car and not the driver...
Young bastards brainwashed at the DOE and colleges
Last year the wokes blamed the police
Last month they were blaming Trump
Last week they blamed guns
Yesterday 2 or so they blamed NED
Dam, the DOE did some job on these clueless young ones.
I think part of the problem is they are to young to know when this city and things were good. Easy prey, Easy influenced for the leftoids recruiting in schools and colleges. I call them CCP drones also.
Hell, Look what college up in that liberal communist shithole called Boston did to AOCs mind. She wasn't born that way ya know.
Are we really going to kill all the cows, drive bikes, electric cars you must throw away after 4 years or spend $20,000 on a certified OEM lithium Ion battery bank ?
Rent them right?
No thanks stupids!!
David A. Brand needs a baba and a week in the NPR echo chamber to fix his Ouchies from the comments here.
Cops don't know if he's dead? NYPD earns the lack of citizen respect it doesn't get!
All those East Europeans and dark skinned people in your old neighborhood.
Try walking or living in the same shoes.
I think Crazy Joe is talking about living around (and getting along with) Albanians and some of the real nasty's coming out of Republic of Georgia .
Gun shots, filthy loitering, public drunkenness, DWIs, SUVs upside down on sidewalks and fights with the Serbs & Polish daily.
I see these guys hanging out in groups with the beer and booze bottles barking at passing women. Walk up Fresh Pond road or 60th lane after 8PM where they muster in groups. Usually at corners so they can bother and bark at more people.
Those guys (Albanians) make the lowest of the Dominicans and pueblo Mexicans refuges look like monks. And they will gang jump you just for looking at them.
People have every right to be mad at such hostile foreign invasion.
So according to the wacko Transportation Alternatives/Streetsblog shitheads we now drive "Assault Vehicles"
What a bunch of shitheads...
@"This is Leftoid city ! Blaming the car and not the driver..."
How about blaming both the car, or tank, and the driver. I guess that would make me a centrist.
So according to the wacko Transportation Alternatives/Streetsblog shitheads we now drive "Assault Vehicles"
Nah, they are riding on Assault Vehicles, e-bikes, e-scooters, they are e-nuts.
You see one of them here frequently, he is the poster boy why abortion needs to remain legal.
@"So according to the wacko Transportation Alternatives/Streetsblog shitheads we now drive "Assault Vehicles"
"Assault Tanks" would be a better description for most of them. The bigger the tank, the dumber the driver.
Here's another one from today.
https://sunnysidepost.com/young-woman-killed-by-16-year-old-in-pickup-truck-in-jackson-heights-thursday
The driver must have been white, as he wasn't arrested. If there was a bike nearby, I'm sure NPD and the Car Totlitarians would have found a way to blame it for the ""accident"".
E-Nuts !
Thank you so much for this new phrase of expression.
I love this, it fits the jackasses perfect !
-Zoë
Transportation Alternatives/Streetsblog shitheads are brainwashed from going to Marxist schools. Prove Me Right !
@"Transportation Alternatives/Streetsblog shitheads are brainwashed from going to Marxist schools"
Yes, Karl Marx was the world's first proponent of bicycles, e-bikes and bike lanes long before cars were even invented.
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