A Brooklyn woman was struck and killed by a motorcyclist while crossing a busy intersection near Forest Park in Glendale on Friday afternoon.
Police from the 104th Precinct in Ridgewood responded to a 911 call of a motor vehicle collision involving a pedestrian on Woodhaven Boulevard at Myrtle Avenue at 2:20 p.m., where they found the victim lying on the roadway, with trauma to her head and body.
EMS responded to the location and rushed the injured woman to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead a short while later, police said. She was later identified as Breanna Henderson, 23, on New York Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
Further investigation by the NYPD’s Highway District Collision Investigation Squad determined that a 34-year-old man was riding a 2007 Yamaha 600 motorcycle traveling in the center lane of the northbound Woodhaven Boulevard, approaching the intersection of Myrtle Avenue when Henderson was struck while attempting to cross from the east side to the west side of Woodhaven Boulevard. The motorcyclist remained at the scene and was not injured. There are no arrests, and the investigation remains ongoing.
The fatal collision occurred on the same day a Long Island man, 42-year-old Jordan Rosen of Oceanside, was arraigned in Queens Supreme Court on murder charges in another fatal collision involving a motorcyclist just over two miles north on Woodhaven Boulevard on April 5.
Rosen was criminally charged on an indictment charging him with two counts of murder in the second degree for the death of 55-year-old William McField, of Steinway Street, during an alleged road rage incident that began on a Long Island Expressway ramp. Rosen pursued McField, rammed his motorcycle from behind, and drove over him before striking another vehicle. EMS responded to the location and pronounced McField dead at the scene from severe body trauma.
Queens Supreme Court Justice May Bejarano remanded Rosen into custody without bail. If convicted, he faces up to 25 years to life in prison.
