Off-Duty EMT Charged In Fatal Brooklyn Crash: Cops

EAST NEW YORK, BROOKLYN — An off-duty emergency responder who hit a pedestrian with her ambulance in June has been charged days after the man she hit died, police said.

Iyana C. Curtis, 23, was arrested Thursday morning, four days after a 63-year-old man who she hit in June was pronounced dead, police said.

The man, Dane Striani, had been sent to the hospital in critical condition after the June 30 crash.

Striani, who lived just a few steps from the street corner, had been walking across Dewitt Avenue "in the vicinity of the crosswalk" near Malta Street when Curtis hit him with the 2013 Ford F-450 ambulance, police said.

Police said Curtis had been slowing down to stop at a stop sign when she heard a loud noise and stopped the ambulance. When she got out, she found Striani lying just outside her door in the crosswalk, police said.

Curtis put Striani into her ambulance and brought him to the hospital, police said.

She is charged with failure to yield to a pedestrian, failure to stop at a stop sign and failure to exercise due care, police said.