Driver Turning Left Fatally Injured Danielle Aber in Greenpoint
Stanley Manel, 68, hit 49-year-old Danielle Aber while turning left at Nassau Avenue and Sutton Street in Greenpoint, where the official record cites failure to yield; Brooklyn Paper reported she died three days later.
What We Know
A 49-year-old woman was killed at Nassau Avenue and Sutton Street in Brooklyn when a pickup driver making a left turn hit her head-on as she crossed in a marked crosswalk. According to the police report, officers recorded failure to yield the right-of-way. The woman suffered a fatal head injury and severe bleeding and died at the scene. The driver, a licensed man in a 2021 pickup, was not injured.
A left turn at Nassau and Sutton
The official record says a licensed male driver in a 2021 Dodge pickup was traveling west and making a left turn at about 7:06 p.m. on Feb. 21, 2024, at Nassau Avenue and Sutton Street. The record lists failure to yield right of way as a contributing factor.
Brooklyn Paper, citing police, identified the driver as 68-year-old Stanley Manel and the pedestrian as Danielle Aber, 49. The outlet reported that Manel hit Aber in the crosswalk as he turned left from Nassau Avenue.
Nassau Avenue had a recent record of injuries
CrashCountNYC’s location context places the crash at Nassau Avenue and Sutton Street in Brooklyn.
On Nassau Avenue in Brooklyn, Crash Finder counts 186 crashes, 95 injuries, 2 serious injuries and 1 death since 2022.
Danielle Aber lived nearby and died days later
Brooklyn Paper reported that Aber lived one block from the intersection where Manel hit her. She died Feb. 24 at NYC Health+Hospitals/Elmhurst, three days after the crash.
State Sen. Kristen Gonzalez wrote that neighbors and loved ones were mourning Aber and said the grief was compounded by the knowledge that street deaths can be prevented.
Failure to yield was recorded and charged
As of Feb. 27, Brooklyn Paper reported, Aber’s death had not changed Manel’s charges.
Officials called for safety changes on Nassau Avenue
Brooklyn Paper reported that Gonzalez and other elected officials called for state traffic laws targeting drivers with multiple school-zone speed-camera violations and urged New York City to install pedestrian safety measures on Nassau Avenue.
Assembly Member Emily Gallagher posted photos of the intersection after Aber’s death and criticized the lack of traffic-calming measures on Nassau Avenue.