Crime & Safety

14-Year-Old Girl Struck, Dragged By Truck In Yonkers

"She was getting emotional and starting to cry, and cops and fire did a great job, EMS," witness Peter Gunther said.

(CBS News)

March 31, 2025

A 14-year-old girl is recovering after she was hit by a truck and dragged down a busy road in Yonkers.

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It happened Thursday on busy Saw Mill River Road at Barney Street.

Surveillance video shows a Bee-Line bus letting the teenager off. As the bus pulls away, she enters the pedestrian crosswalk. A truck then pulls forward, hits the girl and drags her 30 feet.

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