A hit-and-run driver struck and killed a woman at a dangerous Brooklyn intersection early on Thursday<\/p>\n
According to the NYPD, the driver was headed westbound on Avenue O in Midwood at around 6:35 a.m. and made a left turn onto southbound Ocean Avenue at a wide intersection that encourages fast speeds.<\/p>\n
Somewhere in the intersection, the driver struck a 44-year-old woman, causing severe body trauma. She was taken to Maimonides Hospital, where she died.<\/p>\n
The driver fled, according to cops.<\/p>\n
Ocean Avenue, like the parallel Ocean Parkway, suffers from very wide intersections and notorious speeding.<\/p>\n
According to city stats mapped by Crash Count<\/a>, there were 215 reported crashes on the stretch of Ocean Avenue between Empire Boulevard and the Belt Parkway last year alone, injuring 180 people, including 47 pedestrians and 16 cyclists.<\/p>\n At just the intersection in question last year<\/a>, there were 12 reported crashes last year, injuring 10 people, including four pedestrians.<\/p>\n According to a map created by How\u2019s My Driving based on the locations of speed-camera tickets, Ocean Avenue is notorious for drivers<\/a> with heavy right feet. A camera at Ocean Avenue at Quentin Road, for example, has issued about nine tickets every day since 2020.<\/p>\n