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School bus with five students inside
overturns in Dyker Heights crash
BY JAIME DEJESUS
JDEJESUS@BROOKLYNREPORTER.COM
A school bus carrying five students
and a driver overturned
in Dyker Heights following a
collision.
Police say the motor vehicle collision
took place on Tuesday, January 9
at around 3:30 p.m. near 10th Avenue
and Bay Ridge Avenue.
Witnesses say the bus overturned in
the middle of the intersection. Two other
vehicles were involved in the accident.
NYPD and FDNY rushed to the
scene and removed the passengers,
some of whom sustained
minor injuries, from the school
bus.
All of the passengers were
rushed to NYU Langone Hospital
Brooklyn. They are all
listed in stable condition.
Cops say the cause of the accident
is still being investigated.
Crime continues to decline in southwest Brooklyn
BY HELEN KLEIN
HKLEIN@BROOKLYNREPORTER.COM
From Bensonhurst and Gravesend
through Dyker Heights
and Bay Ridge, to Sunset Park
and Greenwood Heights, crime continued
to go down in 2017.
The 68th Precinct, which covers Bay
Ridge and Dyker Heights, showed an
overall decrease in the seven index
crimes (murder, rape, robbery, felonious
assault, burglary, grand larceny
and grand larceny auto or GLA) of 4.72
percent over 2016, as of December 31,
2017.
That represents a total of 847
crimes reported in 2017 as compared
to 889 in 2016. The categories that
showed decreases were robbery
(down 10.2 percent, with 79 last year
as opposed to 88 the year before),
felonious assault (down 17.5 percent,
with 113 in 2017 compared to 137 in
2016), burglary (down 6.8 percent,
with 124 in 2017 compared to 133
the prior year) and GLA (down 5.9
percent, with 95 incidents in 2017 as
compared to 101 in 2016.
Murders were flat, year to year,
with three in both 2016 and 2017. Reported
rapes were up 44.4 percent,
with 13 in 2017, compared to nine the
previous year. Finally, grand larcenies
inched up ever so slightly, 0.5
percent, with 420 in 2017 compared
to 418 in 2016.
Shooting victims and incidents
were way down. There was one
shooting incident with a single victim
in 2017, compared to three incidents
with six victims the previous year,
for decreases of 66.7 and 83.3 percent
respectively.
In the neighboring 72nd Precinct
in Sunset Park, Windsor Terrace,
South Park Slope and Greenwood
Heights, crime overall was down 4.39
percent, year over year, with 1,089
crimes in 2017, compared to 1,139 in
2016. That included decreases in all
categories except burglaries, which
were up 2.1 percent, with 144 in 2017,
compared to 141 in 2016.
Murders were down 50 percent,
with two in 2017, compared to four
the prior year. Rapes were down 12.5
percent, with 21 reported in 2017, as
opposed to 24 in 2016. Robberies were
down 12.4 percent; there were 170 in
2017, and 194 the previous year. The
number of felonious assaults dropped
from 241 in 2016 to 225 in 2016, for a decrease
of 6.6 percent. Grand larcenies
were down 1.2 percent, with 419 in 2017,
compared to 424 in 2016, and GLAs
were down 2.7 percent, with 108 last
year compared to 111 the year before.
The number of shooting victims
and shooting incidents both declined.
There were two of each in
2017, compared to seven victims and
six incidents in 2016, for a decrease
of 71.4 percent and 66.7 percent
respectively.
Finally, the 62nd Precinct in Bensonhurst,
Bath Beach and Gravesend
showed an overall crime decrease of
0.44 percent, with 1,124 crimes in
2017 compared with 1,129 in 2016.
That number includes decreases
in robbery, down 2.4 percent, with
166 in 2017 as compared to 170 in 2016;
felonious assault, down 8.6 percent,
with 181 last year compared to 198
the year before; and GLA, down 26
percent, from 104 in 2016 to 77 in 2017.
The other four categories showed
increases. There was one murder
in 2017, compared to none the prior
year; 14 rapes, two more than in 2016,
for an increase of 16.7 percent; 198
burglaries, up 17.9 percent from 2016,
when there were 168; and 487 grand
larcenies, an increase of 2.1 percent
from the 477 logged in 2016.
The number of shooting incidents
remained steady; there were two
each in 2016 and 2017, but the number
of shooting victims declined from
three in 2016 to two in 2017.
Citywide, crime decreased overall
5.42 percent, from 102,052 incidents
in 2016 to 96,517 in 2017. Shooting
incidents were down 20.8 percent
from 997 in 2016 to 790 in 2016, and
the number of shooting victims was
down 20.7 percent, from 1,181 in 2016
to 937 in 2017.
BROOKLYN MEDIA GROUP/Photos by @NYC911News
Scenes from the accident involving a school bus in Dyker
Heights on the afternoon of Tuesday, July 9.
The 68th Precinct, which covers
Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights,
showed an overall decrease in the
seven index crimes.