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26-year-old teacher Hwi Wu died last night after she was struck by a city bus while crossing the street. The accident took place near the end of the line for the Q58 bus outside the Myrtle-Wyckoff subway station, right on the border of the Bushwick section of Brooklyn and the Ridgewood section of Queens. Wu was crossing Palmetto Street when the bus struck her and trapped her underneath it. A witness told NY1, "The bus was turning, when it was turning, it hit her first on the left and she stumbled and she fell on the floor, and it ran over both her legs." The spot of the accident is a complicated one, six-way intersection where the elevated M train meets the underground L train and more than one bus line terminates. The Q58 in question appears to have been out of service and no charges are expected for the driver. Wu came over from China in 2002. had graduated from LaGuardia College last year and was working with autistic children at a Queens day care center.
Young Queens Teacher Dies in Bus Accident
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How coem no charges for the bus driver? Pedestrians and bicyclist are DYING every week now!!! I am so sick of the drivers who are killing people not getting charged! This is so stupid and it's becoming extremely dangerous just walking around this fucking town!
There WAS a 12-member State Committee charged with investigating & prosecuting irresponsible drivers, unfortunately they were all killed when a drunk driver struck their bus during a tour and forced it off a cliff. Sad.
Here is something you can't understand, A man could just kill a man
I have to agree with sluggo here. If the bus was making a turn it most likely means that this woman had the walk signal. I sometimes drive and often ride my motorcycle in this city, you need to be alert and aware at all times that there are people everywhere, all the time. It's really easy to just make a turn when your light turns green and forget that people are crossing the street you are turning on to.
The article here says no charges are expected, I hope that at least there is a thorough investigation into this incident.
Gothamist does not mention that she was using her phone at the time, obviously not paying attention to her surroundings and fell in the street...yes people are sying left and right vs. motorists...but this one was her own fault.
Nice, placing blame on the victim. It's not illegal for pedestrians to use cell phones and pedestrians always have right of way. The bottom line is motorists always try to make left turns quickly to avoid oncoming traffic without considering the people on the crosswalk.
People using cell phones or ipods tend to be oblivious to their surroundings. If indeed she was using either than the bus driver can not be fully help culpable for the event.
held not help
You're making a huge assumption here. Yes, she could have been inattentive because she was talking on the phone. That's certainly a possibility. But you write "obviously" as though you know this for a fact. Were you a witness? Are you an omniscient deity that can see into her mind? You seem to be guilty of naive cynicism, the tendency to believe the worst rather than keep an open mind.
This is a horrible story. This young woman had a future ahead of her helping autistic kids. If only Gothamist commenters had as much promise.
Continuing on with your turd minded Spitball76 observations as usual might I point out that I wrote "oblivious" not your quoted word "obviously". Stop drinking late in the afternoon please before you respond.
I never said she was using an ipod or she was "oblivious" I was making an observation that there are many people out there that do.
You assume way too much Scumball 76.
Ah, as usual, the world revolves around the amazing Snoopy with his incredible self-centeredness counterbalanced by abysmal reading comprehension. He couldn't even understand the part that says "replied to comment from pkreder." Nope, it's all about him. What an utter imbecile and he's happy to demonstrate his idiocy each and every single day here on Gothamist. Nothing to see here, folks. Move along.
I'm surprised there are no mea culpas on the Internet.
I drive in NYC Manhattan all the time.
I always let people cross first!
It doesn't matter how wrong they are, I always slam on the breaks to let the 80 yo grannys dangerously and blindly j-walk across.
I think she took the translation from English into Mandarin of "to catch the bus" a bit too literally.