An NYPD officer driving a squad car fatally struck a man who was lying in the roadway on Saturday near the USTA National Tennis Center in Queens.
The officer, who was driving a marked NYPD police car, was traveling just 10 mph heading west on United Nations Ave. South when she collided with the unidentified man, who was lying on the ground around 4:39 p.m. inside Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Flushing, cops said.
EMS transported the victim to New York-Presbyterian Queens Hospital where he died.
The officer who was driving the NYPD squad car stayed at the scene. The NYPD Highway District Collision Investigation Squad is investigating the incident.
The accident scene was about one-third of a mile from the U.S. Open, which starts Sunday.
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