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| [ UPDATE #2 ] Woman struck & killed by Q44 bus @ dangerous Queens intersection (256147) | |||
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[ UPDATE #2 ] Woman struck & killed by Q44 bus @ dangerous Queens intersection |
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Posted by Gold_12TH on Wed Feb 22 20:02:17 2012, in response to Woman struck & killed by "Q44 ?" bus @ dangerous Queens intersection, posted by gold_12th on Wed Feb 22 11:35:46 2012. A woman chatting on her cell phone was hit and killed by a city bus as she crossed one of the most dangerous Queens intersections Wednesday, cops and advocates said.Meilan Jin, 22, was crossing diagonally across Northern Blvd. and Union St. in Flushing shortly after 8 a.m., when the bus made a wide right turn and struck her, cops and witnesses said. “The bus was coming pretty fast,” said witness Fahad Ghulam, 54. The bus drove away from the injured woman, who died at the scene. Investigators later found the bus they believed to be responsible for the crash: a Q44 bus that was out of service at the time, officials said. They questioned the female driver, who was apparently unaware that she hit the woman, officials said. Michael Murphy, spokesman for Transportation Alternatives, said the intersection is one of the most dangerous in the borough, with 92 crashes involving pedestrians between 1995 and 2009. “It’s indicative of a definite problem there,” Murphy said. But the city Department of Transportation says the number of accidents at the juncture are going down after a number of safety upgrades. The last pedestrian fatality at the intersection was in 2008, according to DOT records. Statistics show that nine pedestrians were injured in accidents between Aug. 2010 and June of last year, which was down from the average of 11 in the previous three years. --- http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/queens/woman-struck-killed-queens-possibly-city-bus-article-1.1026741#ixzz1nA84TDhD |
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