An 87-year-old woman is dead after she was hit by a car left running in Gravesend on Wednesday afternoon. According to preliminary police investigation, an unnamed person was attempting to park their car in a driveway on the 2100 block of West 10th Street at 2:57 pm, but didn’t put the car in park — causing it to roll back and strike the victim, who was walking behind it. Firefighters from Engine Company 253, Tower Ladder 153 and NYPD’s Emergency Truck 6 and NYPD officers who were alerted to the incident through a 911 call — found the victim pinned under the vehicle. Click here to read more on brooklynpaper.com.
