A person is useless after being run over by in the course of a busy Queens park final weekend by an NYPD automobile, police officers mentioned.
The person was mendacity face up in Flushing Meadows Corona Park on Saturday afternoon when the deadly incident occurred. Police mentioned he had been on United Nations Avenue South, close to the Unisphere, round 4:40 p.m.
Officers mentioned an officer driving a Ford Taurus marked NYPD automobile ran over the person. Legislation enforcement sources mentioned the automobile was touring at round 10 miles per hour.
The person was taken to a hospital within the borough the place he was in the end pronounced useless. His identification was no launched as officers have been nonetheless working to inform subsequent of kin.
Division officers didn’t clarify why the person was mendacity within the path or extra particulars in regards to the lethal ordeal. The incident was nonetheless underneath investigation as of Monday.