Crime & Safety
Queens Man Dies in Pedestrian Crosswalk Crash: NYPD
A Cadillac plowed into the 54-year-old man after he stepped into a South Conduit Avenue crosswalk against the pedestrian signal, police say.
SPRINGFIELD GARDENS, QUEENS -- A 54-year-old Queens man has died after he was hit by a car in a crosswalk just around the corner from his Springfield Gardens home.
Karim Muhammad was crossing South Conduit Avenue at a marked crosswalk near Springfield Boulevard when a Cadillac SRX plowed into him just before 8 p.m. on Monday, police told Patch.
Muhammad had stepped into the left lane of South Conduit Avenue against the crosswalk's pedestrian signal when the 60-year-old driver of the 2015 luxury vehicle slammed into him and knocked him to the pavement, according to an NYPD Highway District investigation.
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He was rushed to Jamaica Hospital for severe head trauma, but doctors couldn't save him, police said.
No arrests or summons were issued to the driver, who remained on-scene after the crash, an NYPD spokesman said.
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Caption: The intersection at Springfield Boulevard and South Conduit Avenue where Karim Muhammad, 54, was struck.
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