A 64-year-old woman trying to cross a Bronx expressway was fatally struck by two drivers, police said Thursday.
Clemencia Cabrera was attempting to cross the northbound lanes of the Major Deegan Expressway when she was struck by the passenger-side mirror of a passing 2015 Mercedes-Benz C300 at about 7:40 p.m. Wednesday, police said.
The impact knocked her to the pavement near the Moshulu Parkway exit.
She was then run over by the 19-year-old driver of a 2014 Toyota Camry, cops said.
Medics rushed Cabrera to St. Barnabas Hospital, where she died.
Both the Camry driver and the 20-year-old driver of the Mercedes stayed at the scene. Neither man has been charged.
In February, the city embarked on a multiagency effort to reduce traffic deaths. Pedestrian fatalities dropped from 126 in 2021 to 118 in 2022.
But 16 people died in 2021 and 2022 combined trying to walk across highways, parkways or expressways. Many of those victims are homeless, intoxicated or mentally ill, or some combination of the three, NYPD officials said, and cops are looking at a multipronged approach to prevent such deaths.