A woman who got out of her car after getting into a fender-bender in Brooklyn was fatally mowed down by the other driver — who then sped off against traffic on a one-way street before crashing into two parked cars, police said Sunday.
The mayhem began when the 32-year-old victim’s car was struck by a Chevy Trax driver near Van Buren St. and Marcus Garvey Blvd. in Bedford-Stuyvesant at about 11:55 p.m. Saturday, cops said.
When the victim got out of her car and approached the SUV, its driver barreled into her then turned onto Lafayette Ave., heading the wrong way down the one-way street to get away, cops said.
Shane Bridges, 28, was getting something eat when he saw the crash and said the woman was caught under the SUV and dragged until the driver crashed into a vehicle, dislodging the victim.
“I seen the car come form the corner,” he said. “They dragged her like to the middle of the street, and then they turned wrong up Lafayette and she was just left there.”
“That happened abruptly out of nowhere,” he added. “It was a terrible thing to see. It was so sad.”
The driver crashed into two parked vehicles, bailed out and ran off, abandoning the SUV, which has temporary paper license plates, according to cops.
Bridges referred to the hit-and-run driver as male but said he didn’t actually get a good enough look to know their gender.
“Once he crashed into another car, he ain’t even stopped,” Bridges said of the SUV driver. “He kept going around, got on Lafayette, smacked up again — crash — and then got out and tried to run.”
Medics rushed the victim to Kings County Hospital, but she could not be saved. Her name was not immediately released.
Local resident Jason Newman’s Volkswagen SportWagen was one of the parked vehicles struck by the fleeing hit-and-run driver.
“I’m just more concerned about the person who died and their family,” Newman, 47, said. “This is all repairable. I just hope they catch the person.”
The driver who struck her has not been caught.
Originally Published: May 25, 2025 at 9:31 AM EDT
