IP D says a person was struck by a truck
and killed this morning in Midwood. This happened at
the intersection of Avenue P and East 19th Street.
And that's where we find news tas Faith Graham.
Faith. What is going on there right now?
We can see it's still a very active scene.
Yeah, that's exactly right. This is still a
very active investigation. This all happened around 915 this
morning and hours later, you can see police still
have this intersection Avenue P in East 19th Street,
completely blocked off. We want to show you the
crowd that is gathered here on the street. This
is where police tell us somebody was crossing this morning
when they were struck by a truck. You can
see there's a lot of people standing here waiting to
learn more about this victim. Police have yet to
release their name, their identity. Any distinguishing factors
, what we can see now is they did just
remove the appears as though the mis skim emergency response
response team is taking over. They are handling the
removal of the body and cleaning the street. You
can see them there. Now, at the intersection
, this corner was blocked off for hours. Again
, police have yet to release the identity of this
victim. We don't know how old they were where
they were coming from. We expect to learn that
soon. We can also see earlier some wooden chairs
were in the street. It was unclear how those
got here. But police say the truck was traveling
east on Avenue P. When it hit the person
, they tell a 43 year old man was behind
the wheel and he stayed at the most of the
morning. We have seen a tow truck here a
few yards from the body and the driver was seen
being questioned by police. This all happened right by
the post office and area with heavy foot traffic.
People who live nearby say while this was said to
come across and for it's expected this intersection with this
accident just occurred is one of the worst intersections I've
ever seen in my life. Cars don't respect the
lights. There's always a traffic jam over here.
People try to make the lights blocking intersections, no
, no respect for people crossing streets at all and
going off of what that man was telling us.
According to vision, 03 other people have been injured
at this very intersection this year alone at this time
. Please tell us there is no criminality expected in
this crash. Stick with us here. So as
we continue to bring you updates on this story and
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