A man crossing the street with this son on North Avenue near the intersection of Rochelle Place was struck by a woman driving northbound in a black Toyota Camry XLE. The man was seriously injured. His son was unharmed but shaken up. Both the father and son were transported to Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx. The father is listed in critical condition at the hospital.
The woman driving the car, identified on the scanner as “Jenine” from Bronx, NY, gave police a New York State drivers license that came back “surrendered”. The police ran a second drivers license from Georgia which came back “suspended”. The woman was taken away by two plainclothes detective.
A police officer called in the first report and requested an expedited ambulance. More police arrived and closed off North Avenue between Lincoln Avenue and Lockwood Avenue. Paramedics stabilized the man at the scene, taking great care to move him onto a gurney and then into the back of the ambulance. Witnesses said the man was talking to his son when the son was brought over to the back of the ambulance.
UPDATE: The Journal News is reporting the man was 40 years old, from Mount Vernon, that he was released from the hospital, that the man stepped off the curb without looking at out coming traffic and that the driver was issued a summons for unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle.