Matter of Fact – Dangerous ground
BY JAY BROWN
At just after 4 a.m. on the morning of Jan. 16, 67-year-old Deborah Mutell was crossing 86th Street by Bay Parkway when a private sanitation truck struck and killed her. The driver reportedly stopped at the intersection before leaving the scene.
Nine days earlier, 10-year-old Shree Panthee was struck and killed by a New York City sanitation truck in Queens. Eight months earlier, just a few short blocks from where Deborah Mutell was killed on 86th Street, three-year-old Emur Shavkator died after being hit by a van while in a Benson Avenue crosswalk with his mother.