80-Year-Old Woman Hit By SUV In Brooklyn Dies, Cops Say

SHEEPSHEAD BAY, BROOKLYN — An 80-year-old woman who was hit crossing the street near her home in Sheepshead Bay has died, police said.

Misa Gorlitskaya was crossing Voorhies Avenue at its intersection with Haring Street just before 10:30 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 13 when an SUV turning onto the street hit her and knocked her to the ground, police said.

Officers who found Gorlitskaya lying in the road with injuries on her head and neck had her rushed to Bellevue Hospital. Gorlitskaya died in the hospital on Monday.

The Toyota RAV4 that hit Gorlitskaya had been trying to make a left turn onto Voorhies Avenue from a stop sign on Haring Street, police said. The 49-year-old driver stayed at the scene after the crash and there are no arrests, police said.

Gorlitskaya lived on Voorhies Avenue just several blocks from where she was hit, records show.

The crash is at least the third time this month that a pedestrian has been hit and killed on Brooklyn streets.

On Dec. 4, 40-year-old Tracy Lewis-Belgrave was hit and killed by an SUV as she was crossing the Pearl and Willoughby street intersection, a section of Downtown Brooklyn that had been turned into a "Shared Street" meant to improve safety just months before.

Lewis-Belgrave, who lived on Westminster Road in Ditmas Park, was rushed to the hospital, but died from her injuries. She was the Deputy Chief Information Officer for Finance and Administration with the city's Department of Education.

A few days before that, another woman was killed when she was hit when she was walking near the Pennsylvania and Atlantic avenues intersection in East New York just after 4:30 a.m. She was rushed to Brookdale Hospital, where she was pronounced dead, police said.

Police were still looking for the driver who hit the woman, who drove away, a few days after the crash.