A driver struck and killed an 80-year-old man who was walking across a busy Staten Island street a block from his home, police said Monday.
The crash happened at Hylan Boulevard and Benton Avenue in Dongan Hills around 9:30 a.m. Friday, according to the NYPD. Police officials said the man, neighborhood resident Chaosheng Wu, was crossing the boulevard from the east when a 65-year-old woman driving north in a 2008 Ford Edge hit him.
Wu was transported to Staten Island University North Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The woman stayed at the scene and no arrests were made, police said.
Officials said they were still investigating how fast the woman was driving and what the traffic signals at the intersection were displaying at the time.
Wu’s death was the first traffic fatality this year in the NYPD’s 122nd Precinct, which includes Dongan Hills and much of Hylan Boulevard along Staten Island’s South Shore, according to police data. There was one traffic death in the precinct from Jan. 1 to March 2 last year, compared to zero over the same period in 2025.
This story is based on preliminary information from police and may be updated.
