NEW YORK — A woman and two of her children were crossing a Brooklyn street on Saturday when they were hit by a car. A third child was seriously hurt.
Police said the woman, who was 32 years old and had a suspended licence, was driving the Audi that hit the family of four. The police were looking into whether she ran a red light and whether speed was a factor. They were also giving her a basic breath test to see if she might have been drunk.
“I’m going to tell it like it is.” “Someone who shouldn’t have been on the road caused this terrible tragedy,” Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch told reporters. “A mother and her two young children were killed.” There’s another kid who is in danger. A family and a neighbourhood are in terrible shape.
Tisch said that around 1 p.m., the Audi hit the back of a Toyota. The two drivers, as well as an adult and three children in the Toyota, all got hurt seriously. It took people to pull the Audi driver out of the wreck.
An Audi crashed into people who were crossing the street, and the car then flipped over, according to the police. The woman, 35, and her daughters, 6 and 8, were declared dead at the scene. The 4-year-old boy was taken to the hospital in critical condition.
City Manager Eric Adams said at the same news conference that it was a “terrible, terrible accident” that was “extremely concerning and painful.”
