A 101-year-old woman who was struck by an unlicensed SUV driver while crossing the street in Brooklyn in early April has died, police said Wednesday.
On April 8 around 8:25 p.m., Taibel Brod was crossing with a walk signal at the intersection of Brooklyn Ave. and Montgomery St. in Crown Heights, and had made it midway across Montgomery St., when the 65-year-old driver of a 2023 GMC Yukon SUV traveling south on Brooklyn Ave. made a left turn going east onto Montgomery St., striking the victim, cops said.
Cops arrested the driver, Menachem Shagalow, the same day, charging him with aggravated unlicensed operator, failure to exercise due care and unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle.
Brod was transported by EMS to Maimonides Medical Center in stable condition with injuries to the head. She later died nearly two weeks later, succumbing to her injuries on April 20, according to police.
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