Thursday, November 10, 2011
News Collision with Cyclist Leaves Prospect Park Volunteer in Coma
Posted by Benjamin Sutton on Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 1:48 PM
On Thursday November 3rd shortly before 3pm 55-year-old Brooklynite Linda Cohen stepped off a bridle path near the Vanderbilt playground in Prospect Park and onto West Drive and was struck by a southbound cyclist. This stretch of West Drive is the steepest grade in the park and the cyclist, who remained at the scene, was going fast enough to send still-conscious Cohen to Kings County Hospital where she was put into a medically induced coma, in which she remains.
The accident occurred around 2:50pm, A Walk in the Park reports, when Cohen, an avid power walker and frequent Prospect Park volunteer, stepped onto West Drive. Gothamist adds that the cyclist's identity has been withheld, but he or she stayed at the scene and refused medical attention.
Cohen, meanwhile, was still conscious when she was taken to Kings County Hospital, but has been sedated and in a medically induced coma for the past week.
In June another cyclist-pedestrian collision in Prospect Park sent the walker to the hospital with severe injuries and broken bones. That accident, after which the cyclist did not remain at the scene, prompted a petition to make the park's busy roads safer, but evidently not enough has been done.
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