Pedestrian, Motorcyclist Dead After Brooklyn Crashes: Cops

BROOKLYN, NY — A motorcyclist and a pedestrian have died after two fatal crashes in Brooklyn just hours apart around midnight Thursday, according to police.

The fatal crashes unfolded just a few miles from one another in Brownsville and East New York intersections, starting with a pedestrian who was hit just before 11 p.m. near Rockaway Parkway and Lenox Road, police said.

Cops called to the intersection found the 54-year-old pedestrian lying in the road with severe trauma, police said. He was taken to Brookdale Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Police say the man had been trying to cross Rockaway Parkway at the intersection when a white BMW heading south on the road hit him and then drove away.

Just hours later, shortly after 1 a.m., police got a call about a motorcyclist crash near Linden Boulevard and Schenck Avenue, police said.

They found an motorcyclist unconscious and unresponsive in the road and took him to Brookdale Hospital, where ehe was pronounced dead, police said.

The motorcyclist had been riding his dirt-bike north on Schenck Avenue through the intersection when he was hit by an Infinity sedan that was heading east on Linden Boulevard, police said. The 27-year-old driver stayed on the scene of the crash, police said.

There were no arrests in either crash as of Thursday morning.