Responders find 87-year-old pinned after Gravesend crash
Joan Behan, 87, died after an April 10 crash on West 10th Street, where Brooklyn Paper reported that responders found her pinned beneath a Camry, though the city record identifies the person killed as a driver.
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What We Know
Joan Behan, 87, died after an April 10, 2024, crash on West 10th Street in Gravesend. Brooklyn Paper reported that responders found her pinned beneath a Toyota Camry and that paramedics took her to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead. The accounts differ on her position in the crash: the city record identifies the person killed as the driver and sole occupant of a sedan, while the paper says Behan was walking behind the Camry when it rolled backward. The paper also says she had been trying to park it.
Accounts differ on Behan's position
The city crash record places the fatal crash at 2:57 p.m. on April 10 and identifies the person killed as an 87-year-old woman driving alone in a sedan that was backing.
Brooklyn Paper identified the woman who died as local resident Joan Behan. Citing a preliminary police investigation, the paper said she was walking behind a running Toyota Camry when it rolled backward after being left out of park. The paper also said Behan had been trying to park the car.
A driveway on West 10th Street
The city record places the crash on West 10th Street. Brooklyn Paper located it at a driveway on the 2100 block in Gravesend, where it reported that the Camry rolled backward.
Responders found Behan pinned
Brooklyn Paper reported that firefighters and police found Behan pinned beneath the Camry. Paramedics took her to NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn with severe head and torso injuries, and she was pronounced dead shortly afterward. Police collision investigators responded to the scene.