MANHATTAN BEACH, Brooklyn (PIX11) — A 99-year-old man was fatally struck on Saturday as he crossed a Brooklyn street in a wheelchair, police said.
Jack Mikulincer was just down the block from his home when he was struck at Coleridge Street and Oriental Boulevard.
Officers determined Mikulincer was crossing the intersection northbound on Coleridge Street when a 52-year-old driver headed westbound on Oriental Boulevard in a BMW crashed into him. The driver stayed at the scene.
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