By The newspaper
06 Feb 2024, 00:47 AM EST
A 22-year-old man was fatally hit by two drivers while crossing a street in the Bronx (NYC) early over the weekend.
According to the NYPD, the victim was first struck by the driver of a four-door sedan heading south on White Plains Road near Archer St. in Parkchester around 4 a.m. Sunday.
The impact sent the pedestrian flying into the northbound lanes, where a pickup truck driver hit him a second time, he reported. DailyNews.
Paramedics took the injured man to Jacobi Medical Center, but were unable to save him. His name was not immediately mentioned. Both drivers remained at the scene and were not immediately charged, as police continue to investigate the crash.
Double wind-ups are not uncommon in New York. In November 2023, a 46-year-old pedestrian died dramatically after being hit by two cars at night in Brooklyn (NYC) and both drivers fled.
In a similar case, in December 2022, Luis Leonardo Saguay, a 49-year-old Ecuadorian father, was struck and killed several times while walking from a party to his daughter’s house in Corona, Queens (NYC). Also that month a young woman was killed when she was hit first by a hit-and-run driver and then by an MTA bus on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.
The authorities remember that there is zero tolerance towards drivers who drive at excess speed and/or under the influence of alcohol and drugs.
Traffic accidents are a big challenge in New York and in many cases drivers flee. This despite “Vision Zero,” a road safety plan created in 2014 by then-new Mayor Bill de Blasio, who promised to make the city safer for pedestrians, cyclists and motorists with a goal of zero deaths. for this year 2024. According to the NYPD, cyclist deaths increased 260% in the first six months of 2023 and 325% since the implementation of the “Vision Zero” plan in 2014.
In December, Gov. Kathy Hochul signed “Angelica’s Law,” intended to keep drivers with prior suspensions off the road by charging repeat offenders who operate vehicles after committing five or more traffic violations that resulted in a felony. suspensions or revocations.