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Woman Fatally Struck By Nassau County Bus Driver In Queens
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Rebecca Fishbein
Published Jan 30, 2015
Modified Mar 25, 2018
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A 42-year-old woman was crushed to death by the driver of a Nassau Inter-County (NICE) bus while crossing a street in Jamaica, Queens last night.
According to the NYPD, the unidentified woman was crossing Hillside Avenue at 165th Street at around 9:20 p.m. last night when the 59-year-old bus driver made a right turn on a green light onto the avenue, striking her. No arrests were made, and the NYPD says the investigation is ongoing.
Witnesses say the bus was carrying passengers when the woman was hit, and that the driver neither saw the pedestrian when he struck her nor heard her scream upon impact; he reportedly kept driving. "Everyone (on the bus) was screaming ‘Stop, stop, stop!’ and he didn't stop until after the fact,” one passenger told the Daily News.
Another witness told the tabloid that the woman was crushed to death under the bus's back wheels. "She got lucky the first time and went between the front wheels, but when the bus was turning, the back wheels hit her," he said.
NICE buses regularly shuttle Long Island-based commuters to and from Jamaica Center and Far Rockaway. In 2012, NICE bus drivers were involved in two fatal collisions: in one, 54-year-old Maleka Begum was fatally struck while crossing Merrick Boulevard with her daughter. In another, 6-year-old David Santana was killed while inside in his Hempstead home, after a NICE bus driver tried to avoid a pedestrian and crashed into the house.
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