68-Year-Old Killed By Cement Truck In Brooklyn, Cops Say

BOROUGH PARK, BROOKLYN — A woman hit and killed by a cement truck in Borough Park on Tuesday became the latest in a string of pedestrian deaths in the borough the last few weeks.

The 68-year-old woman was crossing New Utrecht Avenue between 48th and 49th streets around noon when she was hit by the truck, which was driving north on the avenue, police said. She was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash, an NYPD spokesperson said.

The 48-year-old driver of the truck stayed on the scene and there had been no arrests as of 1 p.m., the spokesperson said.

The crash adds to a long list of fatal pedestrian crashes both in Brooklyn and across the city over the last few months. The 68-year-old woman became at least the ninth pedestrian to die in Brooklyn since late November.

Most recently, a 10-year-old was killed when he and his mother were hit by a dump truck Tuesday morning in Queens.

In Brooklyn, a 70-year-old woman was killed during a hit-and-run in Canarsie on Friday.

Not far from the Borough Park crash, two seniors hit and killed in Sunset Park were among the fatalities in December.

Those crashes and others that happened the same week elsewhere in the city led to at least one safety measure from city officials, who announced that they will lower the speed limit from 30 MPH to 25 MPH along Third Avenue from Prospect Ave to 62nd Street and Hamilton Avenue, from Luquer Street to 18th Street in January.