An intoxicated 58-year-old Brooklyn driver was arrested on vehicular manslaughter charges after he fatally struck a man crossing a Brooklyn street, police said Friday.
Winston Reid was driving a Ford E350 van east on Church Ave. near E. 55th St. in East Flatbush around 1:15 p.m. Thursday when he struck a man in the crosswalk.
EMS rushed the victim to Brookdale University Hospital, where he died. The man had no ID on him and cops were working to identify him Friday.
Reid remained at the scene and was charged with vehicular manslaughter, drunk driving and driving while ability impaired. His arraignment in Brooklyn Criminal Court was pending Friday.
The fatal road incident comes as criminal charges were announced in another deadly crash that occurred in the borough at that start of the year, officials said.
Cops on Thursday said they have charged a 64-year-old driver who mowed down a 95-year-old woman outside her Bensonhurst home on Jan. 24.
Mayya Gil, who survived the Nazis and Chernobyl, was crossing Cropsey Ave. near 24th Ave. in Bensonhurst with the assistance of a home health aide around 12:40 p.m. when they were struck by a Ford cargo van driven by Timothe Andre.
Gil suffered a massive head injury. Her home health aide, 54, suffered a leg injury, cops said. Both were taken to NYU-Langone Brooklyn Hospital, where Gil died.
Relatives said Gil lived in Ukraine when the Nazis invaded in 1941. Her family moved to Kyiv and lived there through World War II, while the country was under Soviet rule, and during the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986.
In the 1990s, she moved to the U.S. and was a towering figure in Brooklyn’s Jewish community, relatives said. Her husband died of COVID in 2020.
Andre remained at the scene following the crash, cops said.
After a six-month investigation, members of the NYPD’s Collision Investigation Squad charged him with failure to yield and failure to exercise due care, both misdemeanors. His arraignment in Brooklyn Criminal Court was also pending.
As of Thursday, 60 pedestrians had been killed by vehicles across the city this year — 10 fewer than the 70 who died by this time last year.
