A 58-year-old man was fatally struck by an MTA driver when he stumbled into the side of a bus in Brooklyn, cops said Sunday.
The B44 driver was headed south on Nostrand Ave. in Flatbush and pulling into a bus stop near Clarendon Road when the victim stepped off the sidewalk about 8:15 p.m. Saturday, cops said.
A man was pronounced dead at Kings County Hospital after he was run over by the rear wheels of a B44 bus at the Nostrand Avenue/Clarendon Road stop in Brooklyn on Saturday. (Theodore Parisienne / New York Daily News)
Th victim made contact with the bus and was struck, cops said. Medics took him to Kings County Hospital but he could not be saved.
The 43-year-old bus driver kept going on her route, unaware she had hit anyone, cops said.
Cops were still investigating the crash Sunday. Police have not yet released the victim’s name.