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Bus Driver Allegedly Blows Stop Sign And Kills Brooklyn Woman, "No Criminality Suspected"
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John Del Signore
Published Jan 25, 2013
Modified Jan 25, 2013
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Published Jan 25, 2013
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A Canarsie man says he watched in horror as a private bus driver blew through a stop sign and killed his wife this morning in Brooklyn. Martin Ferguson and his wife Lorraine Ferguson, 48, were waiting in their warm car for the BM2 city bus on Avenue K and East 105th Street. Around 7:15 a.m. they spotted the bus approaching, and Martin tells the Post his wife got out of the car and was crossing the street when a different bus carrying handicapped children ran through a stop sign and struck Lorraine. "Had he stopped for one second, my wife would still be alive,” Ferguson tells the tabloid. “My wife didn’t have a chance.”
Another witness says, "She was totally gone. The bus driver never came out. I had to go in and ask, are you okay? He said yes." The children, who were uninjured, were transferred to a different bus. The NYPD press office tells us there there is "no criminality suspected."
Lorraine Ferguson worked as a secretary for New York Life and leaves behind two adult sons, one of whom is in the Army and currently stationed in Oklahoma. Martin Ferguson, who helped rescue a neighbor from flooding during the hurricane, tells the Post, "I saved a life during Sandy, and now my wife was taken from me." And her mother, 70-year-old Eubeem Smith, tells DNAinfo, "She was the best daughter. Anybody could call her for anything, any time, and she'd give it to you."
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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