Overview
- Police say a Maimonides ambulance hit 44-year-old Cherry Cayetano Sobel at Ocean Avenue and Avenue O in Midwood and left the scene.
- Surveillance video obtained by NY1 shows the vehicle making a left turn and continuing on without stopping.
- Sobel was rushed to Maimonides Hospital after the collision and was pronounced dead, according to police.
- Maimonides says the two EMTs in the ambulance are suspended pending the NYPD investigation, and police have not made arrests.
- Neighbors and a witness pointed to torn-up pavement and fast turns in the area, and Ocean Avenue is on the city’s Vision Zero priority list after multiple pedestrian deaths.