A Sanitation truck kills a pedestrian at a Brooklyn corner with 106 crashes since 2021. What DOT told the Council this week

The driver of a city Sanitation Department truck struck and killed a 30-year-old woman Wednesday evening at Cropsey Avenue and Bay Parkway in southern Brooklyn, Streetsblog reported. Police said the truck was heading east on Cropsey at about 6:35 p.m. and turning right onto Bay Parkway when it hit her as she crossed from Bensonhurst Park. She died at NYU Langone in Sunset Park. The driver stayed at the scene and was not immediately charged. The NYPD is investigating.

The Sanitation Department told Gothamist its thoughts were with the victim's family and that it was assisting the investigation, Streetsblog reported. It did not immediately give Streetsblog crash statistics for its drivers.

Why it matters to residents: this corner has a long record. City data show 30 reported crashes there in 2025, injuring 21 people, five of them pedestrians, Streetsblog found. Since 2021 there have been at least 106 crashes injuring 77 people, including 18 pedestrians and three cyclists. Streetsblog noted the city's public crash data has not been updated since early June. DOT recently added a bus lane on Cropsey, and a 2025 DOT presentation named Bay Parkway a Vision Zero priority corridor, citing 25 people killed or seriously injured on it from 2019 to 2023.

What our records add

Where it happened. The intersection is in District 47, represented by Kayla Santosuosso. She is the prime sponsor of the Council's speed-limiter bill under the state Stop Super Speeders Act, which she described at the Council's Vision Zero hearing the day before the crash (9:54).

What DOT told the Council on Tuesday. At that Oct. 27 hearing of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, a DOT official said the department's forthcoming Streets Plan will include "the new set of priority corridors that we're committing to" redesign, based on crash data (31:30). DOT also described how it responds to serious crashes. Its staff are based with the NYPD at a traffic management center in Queens, go to the scene to fix immediate hazards, and later use NYPD crash data to plan redesigns (51:54). DOT said it picks intersection treatments by the type of crash, such as turning crashes (1:53:26).

Bills on intersection safety are waiting.

• Int. 511, from Julie Won, would ban parking within 20 feet of a crosswalk, a practice called daylighting that makes people crossing easier for drivers to see. It has 27 Council sponsors, plus the public advocate, was introduced in conjunction with three borough presidents, and has had no hearing in 274 days.
• Int. 738, from Shahana K. Hanif, would require curb extensions at certain dangerous intersections. It is in committee.
• Int. 436, from Lynn C. Schulman, would study raised crosswalks and raised intersections.

Our records show no pending Council bill aimed specifically at safety in the city's own truck fleet.

What's next

The NYPD's investigation continues. DOT has not given a date for the Streets Plan. The Transportation Committee laid over the bills it heard Tuesday, and none of the intersection bills above is on a published agenda.