A 61-year-old Queens woman was fatally hit by a car Wednesday morning while crossing a street only a few blocks from her home, marking the latest pedestrian death in a troubling stretch of traffic violence across New York City.
Wang Jing was crossing Union Turnpike near Main Street in Kew Gardens Hills at about 8 a.m. when she was struck by a 2010 Honda Civic, police said.
According to the NYPD, the Honda Civic, operated by a 56-year-old woman, was making a left turn onto Union Turnpike when it hit Jing, who was crossing outside the marked crosswalk.
The force of the crash knocked Jing into the roadway and left her with severe head trauma, police said.
Emergency responders rushed Jing, who lived just blocks from the crash scene, to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead.
The driver stayed at the scene and was not injured, authorities said.
The NYPD Highway District’s Collision Investigation Squad is continuing to investigate the fatal Queens crash. No arrests have been made.
Jing is at least the fifth New Yorker killed by a vehicle in the city since last week.
Three cyclists and one pedestrian were killed by hit-and-run drivers in separate incidents over five days.
“The tragic loss of three cyclists and a pedestrian, all killed in unsolved hit-and-runs within a five-day span, is heartbreaking,” Council Speaker Julie Menin and Majority Leader Shaun Abreu said in a joint statement. “Our thoughts are with their families and communities as they grieve these preventable deaths.”
