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Two sisters were hit by an SUV that "barreled down Richards Street" in Brooklyn yesterday evening. The girls had been grocery shopping with their mother, who had been pushing the grocery cart and was not hurt. The family was apparently steps away from their building door.
The SUV, driven by a 48-year-old man, jumped the curb, hit the girls, then, per the Daily News, "continued on for some 200 feet, striking two parked cars" and finally stopped after crashing through a chain link fence. A witness told the News, "He was going very fast. He was driving on the sidewalk. I heard a screech and the car jumped out on the sidewalk."
The girls were taken to Lutheran Medical: 10-year-old Alin Esquivel was treated and released while 4-year-old Evelyn is in critical condition with head trauma. The driver suffered minor injuries and investigators are trying to understand how he lost control.
Transportation Alternatives recently updated CrashStat 2.0, the map that shows where vehicles have hits pedestrians and cyclists in the city. The News also points out the incident occurred "just steps" from where 10-year-old girl, who was making a snow angel, was killed by a snow plow driver who didn't see her and dumped snow on top of her.
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Just two weeks ago I was driving to Fairway on that snowy Sunday morning and nearly got t-boned by an out of control driver. I forget what street I was on, the one parallel to Van Brunt. She came flying out of a side street in a brand new Range Rover, blew the stop sign and came careening around the corner ignoring my blasting horn and came within literally half and inch of hitting me. She never turned her head, never slowed down and just immediately swung down the next street and took off. After I calmed down,I thought about and I figure it was a stolen car. It was 8am on a Sunday, I think she was joy riding til ditching the car.
I hope these girls are ok, the roads are so bad in Red Hook it's surprising anyone can speed without breaking an axel. Given my experience and this incident, it wouldn't hurt to have a bit more police patrol in the area outside of the QM II's schedule.
An out-of-control SUV? I don't believe it!! *smacks forehead*
There is no need to drive an SUV in the city and the majority of those who drive them have no idea how to drive a truck properly. Make the drivers of them have to get CDLs and make them ineligible to be driven on parkways. That would weed those who don't need them out like soccer moms in Westchester.
I seem to remember hearing on the news that the driver in this case was drunk. That make him doubly stupid.
uh, Markita Weaver did not have snow dumped on her, 3 years ago she was hit by Dept. of Sanitation snowplow and left buried under the snow.