Police say 67-year-old Juan Sifuentes was struck by a dark-colored car while trying to cross Ocean Parkway in Brooklyn.If you have any information that may help the NYPD investigation, please contact the proper authorities. If you have nothing but conjecture and wild speculation, please post in the comments area below.
He was pronounced dead on arrival at a hospital following the accident.
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17 comments:
I believe this is exactly why they have these signs up at the intersection of Ocean Parkway and Church Ave.
I have to agree, I have seen too many super slow people trying to cross and don't make it all the way across without almost getting hit. Sometimes I even walk down to Beverley to cross and I am not a Senior.
When I am driving over there, it amazes me that there is a large number of colorblind, ignorant, can't read people that ignore the traffic signals and blissfully cross the street when they feel like it as if they have no care in the world.
Didn't realize this neighborhood was filled with insensitive douchebags. If you wanna be a smug jerk do it we can take this outside... then I can blame you for me punching you in the face. x0x0 <3<3<3
in recent memory OP has had at least one fatal pedestrian accident every year untold numbers of less than fatal. Hit and run should be a felony 25 year minimum. Blaming the people walking is not the solution.
As a driver who frequents this intersection i can tell you clearly- that reckless impatient drivers are a greater threat than elderly people.
Countless times I've seen these VAS mobiles running red lights with no apparent emergency at all. It's dangerous, reckless & criminal.
This is a tragic story. May your father rest in power.
The comments I made about were not so much about this accident, am I am sorry if it offended, but the fact that it was something that was going to happen because the signals are not timed for pedestrians and cars.
If you stand there for 15 minutes 9 out of 10 times, people are crossing at ill opportune times and walking slowing against traffic. Your Dad was probably the 1 person that followed the signals. I am sorry for your loss.
I was so sorry to read about this unfortunate pedestrian accident.
My heart goes out to the family, freinds, neighbors, and associates of the man killed so tragically.
I know the accident did not happen at the intersection of Church and Ocean Parkway. All the same, it is interesting to note that that intersection has in past years been the most accident prone in NYC and I believe it also had the most pedestrians killed.
I live on Ocean Parkway between Ave C and Cortelyou Road. All 3 of these intersections have frequent accidents, many of them major, many with serious injuries. And that includes to pedestrians.
I am one of the "slow-walkers..." This is not by choice but by illness. I not only walk slowly, but I stumble. Crossing is very difficult and I often don't quite make it all the way across before the light changes.
Most drivers are understanding, although some will try to go around me in front or in back, which can be dangerous for me.
All that's in daylight, and in good weather.
I was crossing a street years ago, in another neighborhood, when I was hit by a hit and run driver.
At that time, hit and run was the lowest classification of misdemeanor. Unless someone died, was close to death, crippled, or hospitalized for more than 2 weeks, NYPD policy was to do nothing (general misdemeanor policy). I even was given the license plate number by another drive who tried to chase the car down, and it was noted a man was driving. It turned out the car was driven by a man, and was not reported stolen, although it was owned by a woman. NYPD refused to do anything in my case as I did not meet their guidelines.
When the above guidelines are met, and I believe the crime of hit and run (leaving the scene of an accident) has been slightly upgraded, other laws kick in such as Vehicular Manslaughter, reckless endangerment, even the car being classed as a deadly weapon.
I do agree that leaving the scene of an accident does need to be upgraded, and if the NYPD guidelines are met, just for that crime alone, more than 25 years in jail, without parole,should be applied.
I live at the corner of this intersection at Church and Ocean Parkway, and I am constantly surprised (although I shouldn't be at this point) at the moving violations I see ALL the time. The illegal turns, the blocking of the crosswalks, the fighting with the pedestrians who are simply trying to cross the street. Not to mention the speed at which cars come off the Prospect Expressway. I always feel that I'm taking my life (and my daughters) in to my own hands when crossing to get to our apartment building. My sympathies to the family of this poor man.
The last major reconstruction of all of Ocean Parkway was done with mostly federal funding as it is actually designated as an Interstate Highway (read "expressway"); amenities such as benches were added only after public outcry.
The speeds I've seen and the accidents I've seen, both in number and scope, are absolutely amazing.
In one accident, at night, a car going southbound from Church Avenue going at very high speed, maybe 100 or more mph, lost control, narrowly missed other cars, crossed over to the northbound side starting in an arc from Ave C, and demolished a tree. In fact, the tree trunk pushed the engine into the passenger capartment up to the front passenger seat back.
It's more like a racetrack than even an expressway for many of the drivers.
I just moved to the neighborhood and the combination of little kids, seniors and insane drivers is staggering. The police seem to do NOTHING about it - and a third of the time, unmarked supposed police cars (mini-vans??) are doing the insane turns driving.
Does anyone know of a neighborhood committee trying to do something about this or is it best just to make noise at the precinct?
I'd also like to note that many of the worst drivers I've seen are the typical testosterone-pumped teen, post-teenage males on cell phones, revving their engines.
The most amazing one was there was this full school bus waiting to turn left. An SUV behind it swerved around it's right side, then sharply cut off the bus, steeling the left turn! And he was on his cell phone! I've only been here for 2 weeks...
It is unfortunate...
I am not a traffic-engineer.
There have been many complaints over the years and on occasion some "fixes" made.
But the problems are complex and not at all easy.
Making noise at the local precinct (and possibly at the NYPD Highway Police command which also has jurisdiction over Ocean Parkway proper because it is actually a designated interstate highway, aka expressway) would accomplish two things, IMHO.
1. The making of noise, the releasing of hot air;
2. Overtime for some officers as those making the noise might find themselves under arrest.
There is no local committee trying to do anything about this situation. (Great idea!...).
Most definitely, the length of time for the pedestrian signal across Ocean Parkway must be increased. There are so many elderly and people with small children. I think the lights at the intersection need to operate differently (one side turns onto the parkway, then the next). Last year an elderly woman was hit and killed by a truck turning onto O.P. from Church Ave. I am 40 and in good health & I constantly turn my head looking to see where the cars are. I don't know what's taking so long to truly do something about this intersection.
Ours is a somewhat transient, at least in large part of it, neighborhood. People are seemingly passing through. In fact, most of the people who are "in" our neighborhood in fact pass through - quickly - in a rush to get elsewhere.
Thus Ocean Parkway is not just a parkway, and legally an interstate highway (aka expressway), but also a racetrack for many.
Attention is paid to problems when there is enough public outrage made; in terms of elected public office holders, appointed public office holders, those seeking either elected or appointed office, and government agencies, those places with the most "power"
(ie. money, votes, noise) and the issues which generate the same, get attended to.
The Ocean Parkway problems will only be addressed if the people in our neighborhood take up petitions, write/call elected/appointed public officials, demonstrate, write letters to the press, etc...
Ditto for other problems in the neighborhood.
Absent that,(and I'm going to be facetious now), it might be better to propose bleachers be set up on Ocean Parkway so that people can watch the traffic for entertainment, maybe bet on which vehicles will get into accidents or hit pedestrians, which vehicles will get to a point first... etc...
It's kind of like the gladiator stadium concept with wild animals, sans the stadium, using vehicles instead of wild animals.
A car should be classified nearly the same AS A LOADED HANDGUN. Striking pedestrians in large part, is due to carelessness and lack of concern, even hostility within a reckless driver. We've ALL seen how people drive, and especially along the stretches of Ocean Parkway. Drivers have no patience to allow people to WALK ACROSS intersections and operate their vehicle by "rolling" through instead of WAITING for people to clear (usually just missing people, at that). Now, I've been driving for 30 years across our communities and KNOW what I'm talking about. I'm also a 'law & order' sort of candidate for City Council in the 39th District.
And the website is: www.joe439.com if you'd like to check it out.
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