A 70-year-old male pedestrian from Norwood has died after he was hit by a car while crossing a Norwood street on Thursday evening.

 

On Thursday, June at around 9 p.m., police responded to a 911 call regarding a motor vehicle collision involving a pedestrian who had been struck at the intersection of Bainbridge Avenue and East 211th Street. “Upon arrival, officers were informed that EMS had responded to the location and transported the injured male to NYC Health and Hospitals/Jacobi, where he was pronounced deceased.”

 

Further investigation by the NYPD Highway Unit’s Collision Investigation Squad determined that a 70-year-old male pedestrian had been crossing Bainbridge Avenue from east to west when he was struck by a 2022 Mercedes Benz SUV. “The SUV was operated by a 34-year-old male who was traveling northbound on Bainbridge Avenue,” a police spokesperson said. “The operator of the vehicle remained at the scene and was not injured.”

 

The investigation remains ongoing by the NYPD Highway District’s Collision Investigation Squad (CIS). The deceased has since been identified as Ded Kroni, Ded, 70, of Bainbridge Avenue in Norwood.

 

For collision investigations, the NYPD handles all criminal aspects of the investigation, while NYC Department of Transportation (DOT) reviews the street design at the locations of such crashes.

 

Some readers asked why the injured man had not been taken to Montefiore Medical Center or NYC Health + Hospitals/North Central Bronx (NCB), since they are located closer to the scene of the accident. We had advised that our understanding is that while all hospitals have an ER and are presumably trained how to stabliize patients, Montefiore and North Central Bronx are not a designated “trauma” hospitals, whereas Jacobi and St. Barnabas, for example, are, and are specialized to deal with the types of critical injuries sustained from a gunshot or in a vehicle collision.

We reached out to NYC Health + Hospitals for comment and a representative confirmed that NCB has indeed an emergency room but Jacobi is the designated Level 1 Trauma Center for The Bronx and Southern Westchester. It’s also been confirmed in the meantime that Montefiore is not a designated “trauma” hospital.

 

We are aware, for example, that in the past in relation to at least one local shooting, well meaning friends of a victim dropped the victim off at Montefiore only for Montefiore to later transfer the patient to Jacobi [once stabilized].

 

Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/, on Twitter @NYPDTips.

 

All calls are strictly confidential.