Monday, January 5, 2015

FATAL ACCIDENT ON OCEAN PARKWAY

                          from New York City Alerts

UPDATE: The Yeshiva World has identified the decedent as Reb Yaakov Tzvi Hoffman of Borough Park.

A driver is dead after this morning's four-car, chain-reaction collision on the southbound side of Ocean Parkway at Ditmas Avenue.

The crash occurred at around 9:30. EMS transported the so-far unidentified 66-year-old driver to Maimonides Hospital,where he died of cardiac arrest. One other driver is in the hospital with minor injuries.

The NYPD's Collision Investigation Squad will investigate.

News 12 Brooklyn has a video report on the collision.

Source: Mike Wright