An MTA bus hit and killed a woman in Brooklyn as she tried to retrieve her cellphone Wednesday afternoon, police say.
The SBS B44 bus was departing a bus stop on Bedford Avenue at Halsey Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant at about 1:30 p.m. when passengers on board alerted the driver he'd struck a woman, MTA spokesman Kevin Ortiz said.
The right-side rear tire had run over the victim, according to the MTA.
Police say the woman, in her 50s, had dropped her phone just before she was hit and was trying to grab it off the ground. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
No criminality is suspected, but police are still investigating, the MTA said.
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