A 99-year-old Riverdale resident was killed a block from her home by a driver who struck her with an SUV while she was in the crosswalk, police said Friday.
Courtesy of the Schwartz family.
The crash occurred Wednesday at 8:30 a.m. when Bernice Schwartz was crossing the street at the intersection of Oxford Street and West 235th Street. The 53-year-old driver of a Mazda CX9 was headed east and was trying to turn left onto Oxford Street, but he ran into Schwartz in the process.written by her daughter-in-law, suffered severe head trauma and was rushed to St. Barnabas Hospital, where she later died. She would have turned 100 in February.
“Can you imagine at over 99 she lived on her own since her beloved husband Arthur … passed away a few years ago. Took care of herself, shopped, cooked, did laundry, cleaned all by herself,” her daughter-in-law Judy Tydor Baumel Schwartz said in an email.in pen as she was never wrong.” Through June more than 20,000 drivers were hit with summonses for failing to yield to pedestrians, a 33% increase from the same time period last year,
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