A Mount Vernon resident was pronounced dead on the scene on Sunday after being launched into traffic on the Major Deegan Expressway.
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A 22-year-old Mount Vernon resident was struck by a car Sunday morning after being hurled into oncoming traffic on the Major Deegan Expressway while he was assessing damage to his car.
At about 4:16 a.m. on Aug. 13, police responded to a motor vehicle collision on the Major Deegan Expressway near 238th Street within the 50th Precinct.
According to an initial NYPD investigation, a 2018 Honda Accord was disabled in the left lane of the expressway after the driver lost control on the rain-soaked roadway and hit a wall.
The driver, 22-year-old Justin Francisco, exited the vehicle to inspect the damage.
While inspecting his car, a 61-year-old man driving a 2021 Subaru CTX southbound drove into it. The Subaru pushed the parked car forward into Francisco, throwing the young man over the center wall of the highway into oncoming northbound traffic.
Then, a 37-year-old man driving a 2021 Jeep Wrangler in the left lane northbound on the expressway hit Francisco.
The driver of the Jeep then lost control on the wet road, hit the right-side wall and the car turned over onto its passenger side. The car continued to slide along the road, partially pushing the driver out through the soft-top roof of the car.
EMS pronounced Francisco dead at the scene and the 37-year-old Jeep driver was brought to Saint Barnabas in critical condition. The 61-year-old Subaru driver and a 20-year-old passenger in his car, as well as two passengers in Francisco’s car — ages 22 and 23 — were not injured, according to the NYPD.
Francisco, who technically became a pedestrian once he exited his car, was the 18th pedestrian fatality on a Bronx highway since 2019, and the third one year to date, according to the NYC Department of Transportation (DOT). Five of the 18 incidents took place on the Major Deegan, including…
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