82-Year-Old Brooklyn Woman Killed by Dump Truck

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An 82-year-old Bed-Stuy resident named Ora Walker was crossing Broadway Avenue at Gates Avenue in Bed-Stuy around 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon, police say, when she was fatally crushed by a dump truck heading east.

According to police, Walker was just one block from home when she was killed.

When emergency responders arrived to the intersection, which runs under the J Train overpass, they say they found Walker “unconscious and unresponsive in the roadway.”

She was pronounced dead at the scene.

According to the NYPD:

A preliminary investigation determined that a 2001 Mack dump truck, driven by a 40-year-old male, was stopped at a traffic light on Broadway at Gates Avenue. When the light turned green, the truck proceeded to travel east on Broadway. Simultaneously the female began to cross over Broadway and was struck by the truck.

The dump-truck driver stayed on the scene, police say, and “the investigation is ongoing by the New York City Police Departments Highway Collision Investigation Squad.”

Walker is said to have lived at 969 Gates Avenue in far-east Bed-Stuy, near Bushwick.

A witness who works nearby Broadway and Gates tells NBC New York that he “ran out into the street when he heard screaming” and “saw an older woman’s body underneath the truck.”

Did you know the victim, or see what happened to her on Wednesday? Reach out: simone.wilson@patch.com.