An officer was responding to a 911 call in Queens when the patrol car hit a man crossing 40th Avenue mid-block between 10th and 11th streets, police said.
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Melanie Wright's comment,
February 23, 8:15 PM
This is a sad story and unfortunately one that can't be prevented all that well. If the guy were deaf then he wouldn't hear the sirens and if it was around a corner probably wouldn't have seen him coming. With how fast the officers have to go to get to a scene of an accident I could see how easily this could happen. Even with both people paying full attention there is so much going at any given time. I wonder if there would be a way that a signal from an officer's car could turn all crosswalks in a mile radius to the don't walk signal.
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