Driver left after fatally striking woman on Belt Parkway.
A driver police said did not remain at the scene struck and killed a 35-year-old pedestrian on the Belt Parkway near Erskine Street in Brooklyn at 2:59 a.m. on July 19, 2022.
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What We Know
Police said a 35-year-old woman had been driving an eastbound Mercedes SUV before she came into the roadway, where another driver struck her and left. Reports differed on how she left the SUV: ABC7 said detectives believed she may have fallen or been ejected, Patch said she fell, and 1010 WINS said she exited. Police said the SUV continued about 500 feet and came to rest against a tree.
Reports differed on how the woman came to be in the roadway.
Police accounts identified the woman as the driver of an eastbound 2016 Mercedes GLA 250 SUV. ABC7 reported detectives believed she may have fallen or been ejected; Patch reported that she fell, while 1010 WINS said she exited the SUV.
Police said the SUV continued about 500 feet and came to rest against a tree. They said another driver struck the woman in the roadway and did not remain at the scene. ABC7 and 1010 WINS placed her in the center or middle lane.
The crash happened on the eastbound Belt Parkway.
The official record places the crash on the Belt Parkway at 2:59 a.m. on July 19, 2022. Police accounts place it in the eastbound lanes near Erskine Street in East New York, Brooklyn.
The investigation continued without an arrest.
Patch and 1010 WINS reported that emergency responders pronounced the woman dead at the scene. The official record lists one pedestrian killed and no injuries.
ABC7 reported that police closed the eastbound lanes for three hours and had made no arrests as of its July 19, 2022, report.