12-year-old Park Slope boy killed in car accident
A 12-year-old boy is dead after reportedly running into the street and getting hit by a van heading southbound on Prospect Park West at around 5:15 p.m. on Tuesday, October 8, police said.
Samuel Cohen-Eckstein was heading westward across the street when he was struck, said police, who reported that he sustained trauma to the torso area of his body. Cohen-Eckstein was rushed to New York Methodist Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
He lived right across the street from where he was hit.