A woman dropped her cellphone as she got off a Brooklyn bus on
Wednesday — and was crushed to death when she crawled under the B44 to
get it back, sources and witnesses said.
The unidentified woman was even warned by a fellow rider that it
wasn’t worth it, but she still tried to grab it back as the select
service bus idled at a Bedford-Stuyvesant stop around 1:30 p.m.,
witnesses said.
“She said, ‘My phone!’ ” said Benjamin Bolden, 66. “The guy said ‘leave it.’ Then I heard someone screaming.”
The woman was pinned by the bus after trying to save her cell phonePhoto: Paul Martinka
She was pinned under the back right tire of the bus as witnesses on the sidewalk screamed in horror to the driver to stop.
“I saw the woman’s head was crushed,” said Benjamin Bolden, 66, who
witnessed the grisly death on Bedford Avenue between Fulton and Halsey
streets. “Her body was trembling, and blood was spurting everywhere and I
knew she was gone. The bus driver looked traumatized.”
It’s unclear what model of cellphone the victim dropped, but there
was a thin black phone with a small screen next to her blood-soaked
covered body.
The MTA and NYPD are investigating the incident. No criminality is suspected.
Cops have been unable to identify the woman because she wasn’t carrying ID.
“She’s dead and it was all over a phone,” said contractor Kindu
Allan, 43. “You know how it feels like to watch someone’s head explode
and brains splatter? I’m traumatized.”
Barber Peter Simpson, who works across the street said, “There was nothing I could do for her. It’s terrible.”
Katherine Brown, who was cycling nearby, said she can’t understand what the woman was thinking.
I can’t even imagine doing something like…unless it was one of those swanky iPhone 6’s
Her last text was “getting off the bus BRB LOL”
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Disgusting.
If she used G cloud there would have been no reason to fetch that phone.
LMAO. I need to get a bunch of those and stick them on students’ heads when they start texting in class.