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A speeding hit-and-run driver killed a 28-year-old nurse walking home from working the overnight shift at a nearby Brooklyn hospital on Saturday, according to officials and video of the crash.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Jiayi Zheng \u2014 still wearing her forest green scrubs \u2014 was walking along the crosswalk at 55th Street and Third Avenue when the operator of a black Cadillac sedan drove through a red light and barreled into her around 7:30 a.m. in Sunset Park, disturbing footage shows.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Zheng was sent flying in the air before landing on the median, just a block away from where she worked at NYU Langone-Brooklyn Hospital as a medical- surgical unit nurse.<\/p>\n

Medics rushed her to the same hospital, but she succumbed to her head and neck injuries.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The heartless driver \u2014 who police sources said had Pennsylvania plates \u2014 never stopped. <\/p>\n

\u201cI heard the bang. Her bag was over here, and they left her there,\u201d witness Antonio Perez told News 12 Brooklyn.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe car just kept on, it never stopped for nothing at all.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The deadly crash unfolded on a perilous roadway, according to Sen. Andrew Gounardes, who represents the neighborhood.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A Department of Transportation redesign plan for the dangerous stretch of roadway was presented in 2023 but never went into effect.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhile the investigation proceeds, I am once again calling on\u00a0@NYC_DOT to work with the community to make 3rd Ave safer,\u201d Gounardes wrote on X. \u201cJust over a year age we lost two elderly neighbors to a similar crash, and 3rd Ave remains one of the most dangerous corridors in Brooklyn. Enough is enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

The tragedy unfolded just one block away from where\u00a0nurse Clara Kang, 31, was killed by a motorcyclist when she was heading home on a bike from working at the same hospital in 2020.<\/p>\n

Zheng is the ninth person killed by a hit-and-run driver in the last two weeks across the Big Apple \u2014 and 11th killed while walking or biking the two-mile stretch of Third Avenue that runs under the Brooklyn Queens Expressway since 2014, according to\u00a0advocacy group Transportation Alternatives.<\/p>\n

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\u201cNew York City streets should be the envy of the world, but we are the envy of no one today,\u201d Ben Furnas, their executive director, said in a statement. <\/p>\n

Zheng\u2019s colleagues remembered her as a \u201cloving nurse and hard worker\u201d in the medical-surgical unit, News 12 reported.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are deeply saddened by the passing of Jiayi Zheng, a nurse at NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn,\u201d a spokesperson for the hospital said in a statement to The Post. <\/p>\n

\u201cOur nurses play an essential role in caring for others with compassion and dedication, and this loss is being felt across our entire community.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The driver has yet to be caught as of Sunday afternoon. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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