Driver charged after fatal Kensington left-turn crash
A licensed male driver was making a left turn in an SUV at 18th Avenue and East 2nd Street when he hit pedestrian Adilova Rahima, amNY reported; police records cite failure to yield, and police later arrested Shmuel Zupnick.
What We Know
On Feb. 21, 2022, a licensed male driver was making a left turn in an SUV at 18th Avenue and East 2nd Street in Brooklyn when he hit a 65-year-old woman who was walking at the intersection. Police records cite failure to yield. amNY identified the woman as Adilova Rahima and reported that paramedics found her unconscious, took her to Maimonides Hospital in critical condition, and that she died the next day. The driver stayed at the scene. A month later, amNY reported that police arrested Shmuel Zupnick and charged him with two counts of failing to yield, failure to exercise due care, and an equipment violation for excessively tinted front windows.
A left turn at 18th Avenue ended with a pedestrian fatally injured
The crash was recorded at 10:27 a.m. on Feb. 21, 2022, at 18th Avenue and East 2nd Street in Brooklyn. The official record says a licensed male driver in an SUV was making a left turn and lists failure to yield right-of-way as a contributing factor.
amNY reported that Adilova Rahima, 65, was crossing 18th Avenue when a driver turned left at the intersection and hit her. The article reported the turn sequence from East 2nd Street; the official vehicle record lists the SUV’s travel direction as east.
The intersection sits on a corridor with repeated serious harm
The fatal crash happened at 18th Avenue and East 2nd Street in Brooklyn’s 11218 ZIP code.
CrashCountNYC’s location review identifies 18th Avenue in Brooklyn as a corridor with 608 crashes, 402 injuries, 23 serious injuries and 7 deaths since 2022.
Adilova Rahima died after being taken to the hospital
amNY identified the pedestrian as Adilova Rahima, a 65-year-old area resident. The official record lists one pedestrian killed and no other injuries.
Paramedics found Rahima unconscious and unresponsive, amNY reported, and took her to Maimonides Hospital in critical condition with body trauma. She died the following day.
The driver was in an Infiniti SUV
The official vehicle record describes the involved vehicle as a 2021 Infiniti SUV with one occupant. amNY reported that the driver stayed at the scene and that police gave him a breathalyzer test.
amNY reported that the Infiniti had a Wisconsin rear license plate and no front plate. In the later arrest report, amNY said police also charged Shmuel Zupnick with an equipment violation for excessively tinted front windows.
Police later arrested Shmuel Zupnick
amNY reported on March 24, 2022, that police arrested local resident Shmuel Zupnick in connection with the crash. Police charged him with two counts of failing to yield, failure to exercise due care, and the equipment violation.
The first amNY report described the driver as 23 years old on the day of the crash; the later arrest report described Zupnick as 22. The later article cited a Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office spokesperson saying the misdemeanor charges usually lead to a desk appearance ticket and can carry a maximum sentence of 30 days.