Police arrested a driver after a fatal Bushwick pedestrian crash.
Police arrested Lennis Escalona Luna after a 59-year-old pedestrian was killed at DeKalb Avenue and Wyckoff Avenue in Brooklyn on Oct. 18, 2024, in a crash recorded at 9:36 a.m.
Location reported in Open Data.
What We Know
A van driver was recorded traveling east and making a right turn in a fatal collision at DeKalb and Wyckoff avenues at 9:36 a.m. on Oct. 18, 2024; police later arrested Lennis Escalona Luna and charged him with failure to yield to a pedestrian and failure to exercise due care. News accounts differ about the pedestrian's position and the driver's route.
Reports differ on the pedestrian's name order.
The Daily News and Spectrum Noticias identified the pedestrian as Marco Gallardo Tirado, 59; Brooklyn Paper gave his name as Marco Tirado Gallardo and reported that he lived in Bushwick. News reports said medics took him to Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, where he died.
Accounts differ about the crossing and route.
The official record places the collision at DeKalb Avenue and Wyckoff Avenue in Brooklyn at 9:36 a.m. on Oct. 18, 2024, and records one pedestrian killed. It records the pedestrian crossing with the signal at the intersection, and a van driver traveling east and making a right turn; failure to yield right-of-way is listed as a contributing factor.
The Daily News, citing police, said the pedestrian was crossing midblock near Wyckoff when the driver struck him. Brooklyn Eagle reported that he was in the north crosswalk. Brooklyn Paper described him crossing in a crosswalk, then said Luna ran over him on the sidewalk while attempting a right turn onto DeKalb. Spectrum Noticias reported that the pedestrian was crossing the north crosswalk from west to east.
ABC7 reported a preliminary police account in which a white box truck was traveling east on DeKalb Avenue; Spectrum Noticias also recounted an eastbound account. Spectrum then described a later investigative account in which the driver was traveling west on Wyckoff Avenue and attempting a right turn north onto DeKalb.
Reports describe the vehicle in different terms.
The official record classifies the vehicle as a 2025 van. The Daily News, ABC7 and Brooklyn Eagle described a white box truck; Brooklyn Paper called it an 18-foot delivery truck, while Spectrum Noticias identified a white 2025 Freightliner MT 45G delivery truck.
Police traced the truck through its employer.
The Daily News reported that investigators used the truck's U.S. Department of Transportation number to identify its owner and went to the company's Park Slope headquarters. Police identified Luna as the employee assigned to the truck; his boss asked him to return, and officers took him into custody.
The Daily News reported that police charged Luna, 42, with failure to yield to a pedestrian and failure to exercise due care. The report said it was not immediately clear whether he knew he had struck someone.
Where
DE KALB AVENUE and WYCKOFF AVENUE