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A 75 year old Staten Island man was killed by a minivan yesterday afternoon on the corner of Atlantic Avenue and Hoyt Street. Alvaro Fernandez, who would chat with his friend Augustin Abreu on the Hoyt Street Market and Deli's bench, was hit when a minivan tried to make a right turn from Atlantic Avenue. The minivan was rear-ended by an ambulette and jumped a curbed and crashed into the deli's building. Then the ambulette hit two other cars on Atlantic Avenue.
Fernandez was pronounced dead at Staten Island Hospital; Abreu and the minivan's driver were taken to another hospital with minor injuries. The Staten Island Advance reported that Fernandez used to live in Boerum Hill before moving to Staten Island five years ago; he and Abreu had been friends for over 40 years. The police have not charged anyone with a crime.
Photograph by David Shulman
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More correctly, the minivan did not hit him, the driver did so.
He was taken from Boerum Hill to Staten Island hospital? Huh?
what is an ambulette?
Ugh. I used to live a few blocks down from where this happened, and I can tell you from personal experience that people drive WAY too fast and stupidly on Atlantic. Doesn't surprise me at all that an accident like this could happen. So sad.
(what is an ambulette?)
A way for the politically connected to make millions.
Among the Medicaid-funded services that exist here but not elsewhere, the state pays (in part with city funds) for "ambulettes" (but not car services or taxis) to take frail old people to the doctor, etc.
The ambulette companies are permitted to charge far more than the doctors, and don't always pay the help well. Not all the elderly thus transported need an ambulette rather than just a ride (who knows, they might not all exist).
Some of it is legit, perhaps a lot. But spending on things like this is off the charts. And, in exchange for high funding for services like this, often operated by people linked to state legislators, our "representatives" accept a lower share of state school aid, among other things.
Alvaro Fernandez isn't the only one getting rear-ended by ambulettes.
These ambulettes have to be the worst vehicles on the road. The drivers are complete idiots. I've been thinking for a long time that they need to be investigated.