NEW YORK – A woman died Wednesday after she was hit by a van in Brooklyn, and police sources say it was an unmarked police vehicle.
It happened just after 6 p.m. on Pennsylvania Avenue in East New York.
According to sources, the woman was seen to be having a possible medical episode and collapsed in the street when she was hit by an unmarked police van.
A witness who did not want to be identified said he was driving behind the van.
“We thought they blew a tire or something, but eventually there was a lady… My passenger was a nurse, so she said, ‘Oh, stop,’ and she came out and she started doing, I think , like, stuff in front of her. She tilted her head,” the witness said.
The victim suffered head injuries and died in hospital. We’re told she may have been homeless.
Police say the driver and passengers of the van remained at the scene and were taken to a local hospital to be treated for shock.
There is no mention of crime.
