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NYPD: Syosset Woman Fatally Struck by Garbage Truck

Syosset High School graduate Katherine Yun was struck and killed by a NYC sanitation truck in Williamsburg, Brooklyn Wednesday night.

 

A 2004 graduate of Syosset High School was struck and killed by a garbage truck in Brooklyn Wednesday night, according to NYPD.

Katherine Yun, 25 of Syosset, was walking north in Williamsburg, Brooklyn after 7 p.m. Wednesday night when she came to the intersection of Driggs Avenue and Broadway. According to police, it was when she crossed Broadway that she was struck by an eastbound New York City sanitation truck.

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Emergency crews responded to the 911 call at 7:13 p.m. and found Yun unconscious and unresponsive. Yun was raced to Woodhull Medical Center where she was pronounced dead on arrival.

No criminality is suspected, police said.

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