Woman Run Over By Mr. Softee Truck

A Brooklyn woman was fatally struck by a Mr. Softee truck Saturday evening. The Daily News reports that 68-year-old Adelaide Rodriguez had just left her apartment and was walking to an evening mass when the truck hit her at Irving Avenue near Woodbine.

According to goddaughter Maria Rodriguez, "Witnesses [said]...the driver may have swerved to avoid a boy on a skateboard as he turned left." She also told the News that the grandmother "never went anywhere except for church."

The driver, who stayed at the scene, passed a Breathalyzer test and was not charged. He was, however, given "summonses for equipment violations and failing to yield to a pedestrian."

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By Jen Chung in News on June 4, 2007 8:01 AM

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mags

That's a sucky way to go! That damn music playing in the background...

zodak

he should have run over the stupid skateboarder.

dhex

"they killed a pedestrian, bottom line!"

and if it wasn't intentional and it wasn't due to negligence, what do you charge them with? bad luck?

Nimuë LaMer

Usually they get run over by reindeer.

baffled

i get that it was an "accident" and that the driver wasn't intoxicated, but i don't get how there are rarely charges in these instances. they killed a pedestrian, bottom line!