Snowplow Kills Pregnant Woman in Brooklyn, Baby Saved and in Critical Condition
A snowplow killed a pregnant woman in the Bay Ridge area of Brooklyn Thursday morning, according to reports. Fortunately, her infant son was able to be delivered later on that day by emergency caesarean section.
The snowplow that killed the pregnant woman was moving snow in the Fei Long Market in Brooklyn at 10:40 a.m. when it accidentally backed into the woman in the parking lot. Min Lin, the 36-year-old mom-to-be, was loading groceries into the trunk of her car alongside her husband when the incident occurred.
The tractor equipped with a snowplow struck the woman, and she was transported by paramedics to the nearby Maimonides Medical Center within 10 minutes of the accident, hospital spokeswoman Eileen Tynion told CNN. She was pronounced dead once she arrived.
Lin was eight months pregnant, and doctors were able to perform an emergency c-section and the infant was saved. The boy weighed 6.6 pounds and was in critical condition when he was born.
The 42-year-old operator of the snowplow has not yet been identified, but a resident who lives across the street, Marvin Lopez, says the man is not a competent driver.
"That Bobcat is owned by the supermarket," Lopez told The New York Post. "But they have the same guy drive it every single year during winter. I was watching him yesterday and he was driving so erratically. He was speeding up and down the sidewalks. He almost hit me and my wife yesterday as we were going across the street. The guy was a speed demon."
No charges have been filed against the tractor operator. The newborn is now reportedly is in critical but stable condition, according to the Associated Press.
