The police official wrote in an email to the Norwood News the following day, “Police responded to a 911 call of a motor vehicle collision involving a pedestrian struck on the Hutchinson River Parkway, northbound near Pelham Parkway.”

 

According to the official, officers from the 45th precinct discovered a still-unidentified, 79-year-old man lying in the roadway with trauma to the head and body. He was transported to Jacobi Medical Center, and as of Saturday morning he was still listed as “critical.”

 

A dented front hood of the vehicle appeared to be a possible sign that an accident had occurred.

 

 

Hit and run incidents continued into the new year as police searched for an unknown vehicle that struck and killed a man who was discovered at East 140th Street and Bruckner Boulevard in Mott Haven, on Saturday, Jan. 2, at 10.51 p.m. The victim was found lying on the roadway and was pronounced dead at the scene, with no identification on his body. The NYPD’s Collision Investigation Squad was investigating the incident.

 

A review of the recent Department of Transportation statistics on motor vehicle accidents resulting in either death or injury, show that 225 deaths were recorded citywide from Jan. 1 through Nov. 30, 2020, a 3 percent uptick from the 218 deaths reported for all of 2019, when there was, arguably, more traffic on the roads, pre-pandemic.

In addition, there were 40,486 traffic related injuries reported in the city during the same 11-month period in 2020. Meanwhile, at borough level, during the first 11 months of 2020, the Bronx recorded 37 road accident fatalities, and of those 37 victims, 15 were motorists, 15 were pedestrians, and 7 were cyclists. The Bronx also recorded 5,979 traffic related injuries during the same period.

 

More locally, the 52nd precinct reported two traffic related pedestrian fatalities during the same period, and a total of 490 traffic related injuries for the first 11 months of 2020.