Police say an SUV fatally struck a 79-year-old woman on the sidewalk in East Flatbush after it made too wide of a right turn going from Rutland Road onto East 92nd Street. The incident happened Friday around 1:30 p.m.<\/p>\n
The woman has now been identified by police as Yvette James, according to police. <\/p>\n
“There was just a loud bang, and I heard everyone screaming and running, ” said Akeem Adams, who knew the victim from church.<\/p>\n
The car that struck the woman also appeared to have knocked down multiple street signs and damaged the wall of a building.<\/p>\n
“Came up the street, and they told me Miss Yvette got hit by a car…,” said Adams.<\/p>\n
Friends and family members on scene say James lived just down the block from the crash site.<\/p>\n
“She’s very strict, but very wonderful. She was a very nice person,” said Kaster Baptiste, who lived across the street from her.<\/p>\n
“It’s a big loss because she helps everybody around here,” agreed Adams.<\/p>\n
Most people in the area said they knew James as a volunteer with the food pantry and the nearby Church of God. Pastor Duvil Baugour said she was a regular for nearly 20 years.<\/p>\n
“When delivery comes\u2026she’s there. Sometimes, even if it comes at 4 a.m\u2026.she was a good helper for the program,” he said.<\/p>\n
According to neighbors, James continued to help even when she was not volunteering.<\/p>\n
“If you was hungry, she’s giving you a plate of food. If you needed somewhere to stay, she’d make sure you had a home or somewhere to lay your head for the night…she was that type of person,” Adams remembered.<\/p>\n
According to the NYPD, the 63-year-old woman who was driving the Lexus did stay on the scene. She has not yet been charged. Police are still investigating exactly what led to the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say an SUV fatally struck a 79-year-old woman on the sidewalk in East Flatbush after it made…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-299350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}