Sunset Park Woman Is 4th Brooklyn Pedestrian Death In Weeks: Cops

SUNSET PARK, BROOKLYN — Just days after an 80-year-old woman died after being hit by a car in Sheepshead Bay, a 75-year-old woman was mowed down by a Jeep in Sunset Park, police said.

75-year-old Xue You was crossing 52nd Street just before 10 a.m. when a white Jeep Grand Cherokee trying to make a left turn onto the street from Eighth Avenue hit her, police said. You was rushed to NYU Langone Hospital, but was pronounced dead, police said.

The 21-year-old driver of the Jeep, Ilda Gjona, stayed at the scene of the crash and was charged with a right-of-way violation and failing to yield to a pedestrian, cops said.

You, who lived about 10 blocks north of where she was hit, is the fourth pedestrian to be killed in the borough in just a few weeks.

Just two days before the Sunset Park crash, 80-year-old Misa Gorlitskaya died in the hospital, three days after she was knocked down by an SUV when trying to cross Voorhies Avenue in Sheepshead Bay.

Officers had found Gorlitskaya lying in the road with injuries on her head and neck around 10:30 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 13 and rushed her to Bellevue Hospital. She had been hit by a Toyota RAV4 trying to make a left turn onto Voorhies Avenue from Haring Street.

Earlier this month, 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.

Another woman was killed in late November 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.