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Edited by: TJVNews.com
An elderly Brooklyn pedestrian was killed in a tragic car accident after a teen driver lost control of his speeding Tesla in the Midwood section of Brooklyn on Wednesday night. The accident took place on Ocean Parkway and Avenue M at approximately 9:20 pm, when the driver of the Tesla hit the 76 year old victim before trying to flee, police said Thursday, as was reported by the New York Daily News.
Ocean Parkway and Ave M in Brooklyn, NY.
Massive accident, witnesses state a car hit a person so hard the persons legs came off . One person was arrested.
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An eyewitness recalled seeing the victim, both his legs torn off by the lethal impact, lying on the street before the 17-year-old driver was arrested a short distance away after bolting from his mangled vehicle, the Daily News reported.
While the driver’s identity has not been reported due to his age, the victim was identified as Milorad Rajacic, according to police.
The Hatzolah volunteer ambulance service arrived on the scene within moments and rushed the critically injured patient to Maimonides Medical Center in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn but the man’s life was unable to be saved.
Speaking to the New York Daily News, Michael Roshan, who ran outside with his wife after the couple heard screeching tires and a loud boom, said of the victim, “He looked like he was already going out. One leg was seven to eight feet away, the other leg was somewhere.”
Also speaking to the Daily News was the victim’s wife, Emilia. She told the paper that her husband was walking home from work at his small real estate business when killed just three blocks from their residence. “Everybody was shocked,” she said.
The driver of the Tesla was heading north on Ocean Parkway when he lost control of the vehicle. It was then that the vehicle vaulted the curb and slammed into the elderly victim. The Daily News reported that the vehicle continued to spin out of control until it struck a traffic signal pole, upending it before crashing into a parked motorcycle and a bench on the median where a 24-year-old man was sitting. The Daily News reported that the man on the bench suffered minor injuries to his legs after he was struck by the falling pole.
Esther Roshan, the wife of the eyewitness described for the Daily News the intersection flanked on either side by rows of benches and tree-lined pedestrians paths as the site of frequent prior car crashes.
“It’s a family-friendly block, kids sit there all the time,” said Esther, pointing to the shattered bench demolished in the crash, the Daily News reported. “It’s a horrible intersection. There’s an accident every month.”
