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Two Struck By Hit-And-Run Driver In Prospect Heights
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Jen Chung
Published Feb 21, 2010
Modified Feb 21, 2010
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Around 4:30 a.m. this morning, two pedestrians were struck by a hit-and-run driver at Flatbush Avenue and Prospect Place in Brooklyn. According to WCBS 2, the victims were two women in their 20s, "When rescuers arrived at the scene, one woman was unconscious, the other was lucid."
WABC 7 reports that the police found the car a few blocks away, with a shattered windshield and a sheared off driver's side mirror. The victims were taken to Kings County Hospital with "serious" head injuries.
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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