Police: 2 Pedestrians Killed In Separate NYC Incidents
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- Two pedestrians were struck and killed by vehicles in separate incidents in New York City this weekend.
Just before 9:30 p.m. Saturday, a 68-year-old man was hit by a Ford sedan at 130th Street and South Conduit Avenue in South Ozone Park, Queens, police said.
The driver remained at the scene. The victim was transported to Jamaica Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Police said a preliminary investigation found the victim, whose identity has not been released, was trying to cross within the crosswalk against the signal when he was hit by the car's driver side front.
There has been no arrest.
Then around 12:42 a.m. Sunday, an 88-year-old woman was struck at West 109th Street and Columbus Avenue on the Upper West Side. She was rushed to St. Luke's Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
The woman, identified by police as Luisa Rosario, of Manhattan, was crossing West 109th Street outside the crosswalk when she was struck by a yellow taxi traveling south on Columbus and making a right turn on 109th, cops said.
Rosario was pronounced dead at the hospital.
"If he would have slowed down she would be alive," Junior Manuel Tavarez, Rosario's grandson, said.
Mayor de Blasio addressed the alarming traffic toll earlier this week, a day after 84-year old Aglaia Gourais was hit and killed by a bus as she tried to call Main Street in Flushing on Thursday.
"If you're driving a car you have to yield, you have to recognize the danger of using that car wrongly," de Blasio said.
The driver of the taxi is under arrest and charged with failure to yield to a pedestrian.
