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arrow A photo taken outside the Bay Ridge Volkswagen dealership this past summer Ed Yoo
A Brooklyn woman was fatally struck by an SUV driver while walking on the sidewalk outside a Bay Ridge car dealership on Thursday.
The crash, which took the life of 72-year-old Bay Ridge resident Carol Langdon, occurred on a stretch of 4th Avenue that safe streets advocates have long warned poses an outsize threat to pedestrians because of vehicles parked on the sidewalk.
According to police, Langdon was passing the Bay Ridge Volkswagen on Thursday afternoon when a 29-year-old motorist pulled forward to exit the sidewalk in his new 2021 Altima, fatally striking the woman.