A wind-swept photo voltaic panel flew off a Brooklyn carport, placing a lady within the head and leaving her useless, metropolis investigators dominated Monday.
The massive panel, roughly 3-feet by 7-feet, got here off its body at a car parking zone in Brighton Seashore Sunday morning round 10:30 a.m. and smacked the lady within the head.
Police stated the 76-year-old lady was taken to Lutheran Medical Middle, however her accidents in the end proved to be deadly.
The Division of Buildings decided the “indifferent panel was taken by the wind and blown roughly 20 ft away the place it fatally struck a pedestrian at an adjoining walkway.”
A partial vacate order of the car parking zone was issued by the division for the world beneath the out of doors carport.
The incident occurred near one of many entrances to the Ocean Parkway (Q practice) subway entrance, prompting a short lived closure as excessive winds persist within the space.
