An 8-year-old boy hit by a driver on a neighborhood street in Queens on Memorial Day died from his injuries. NYPD and Queens District Attorney Richard Brown filed no charges.
Sincere Atkins was playing with his cousin outside his grandmother's apartment, on Sutphin Boulevard near 125th Avenue, when a 21-year-old man hit him with a Toyota Corolla, according to reports.
A witness told the Post the driver, whose name was withheld by NYPD, hit Sincere “so hard it knocked his shoes across the street," an indication the driver was probably speeding. Officers from the 113th Precinct, where Sincere was killed, issue an average of about one speeding ticket a day.
The crash happened on a street flanked by apartment buildings and a park, on a sunny spring day when kids were out of school -- an environment where motorists should know to drive with care. “This is a very busy street,’’ a witness told the Post. “There are so many kids here. There should be a speed bump or something.’’
Reporters from the Post and the Daily News blamed the child, saying he "ran into traffic" and "darted" into the street.
Sincere died from head trauma on May 29, the News reported. "The driver of the car was not charged with a crime," the News said.
The crash that killed Sincere occurred in the City Council district represented by Ruben Wills, and in Queens Community Board District 12.
Sincere Atkins was at least the third child age 14 and under killed by a New York City driver in 2015, and the 11th child victim since January 2014, according to crash data compiled by Streetsblog.
