An 89-year-old woman was killed in Brooklyn Wednesday afternoon when an SUV driver possibly having a stroke backed into her on the sidewalk, also injuring two other women standing near hear, cops said.
The 86-year-old driver, who was operating a red Chrysler Town & Country SUV, suffered a medical episode and put his car into reverse, striking the elderly woman on the pavement around 12:51 p.m. near W. Fifth St. and Neptune Ave. in West Brighton, police sources said.
EMS transported the woman to NYU Langone Hospital where she died.
A 75-year-old woman and a 43-year-old woman were also struck in the incident. EMS transported both of them to NYU Langone Hospital, where they were in stable condition.
The driver remained at the scene and was not arrested, and was later treated at NYU Langone, too, where he was in stable condition, cops said.
