A 75-year-old man was left unconscious and unresponsive Tuesday morning after a car struck him while he was crossing Jerome Avenue on the crosswalk at East 164th Street, just outside Yankee Stadium in the Bronx. Police responded to a 911 call for a pedestrian struck at 10:11 a.m., and officers arriving on scene found the man with head trauma before EMS rushed him to the hospital.
According to News 12 New York, the man was transported to Lincoln Hospital in critical condition, and the driver remained on scene and was questioned by police. NYPD reported that a 76-year-old man was in critical condition after being struck, though the outlet's own reporting identifies the victim as 75 years old — a discrepancy the dossier does not resolve. Lincoln Hospital, formally NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln, is a New York State-designated Level 1 Trauma Center in the South Bronx that handles well over 140,000 emergency visits a year and provides round-the-clock neurotrauma and surgical care for exactly this kind of life-threatening impact injury, per NYC Health + Hospitals.
Why Collision Investigators Get Called In
Crashes of this severity automatically bring in NYPD's specialized reconstruction unit. Under department procedure, the Highway District's Collision Investigation Squad is dispatched whenever EMS reports a victim has suffered critical or life-threatening injuries, with detectives analyzing event data recorder metrics and camera footage to determine whether criminal charges or traffic infractions apply, according to the Law Offices of Norman Gershon.
Because the man was reportedly crossing in the marked crosswalk, the driver faces potential exposure under city right-of-way law. NYC Traffic Rules § 4-04(b) and Administrative Code § 19-190 require motorists to yield to pedestrians with the right of way in crosswalks, and striking one can trigger an administrative summons or an unclassified misdemeanor charge carrying civil fines and potential criminal penalties, per RMFW Law. Whether investigators ultimately file charges or a failure-to-yield summons against the driver remains an open question. Some private surveillance systems may overwrite footage within days, so any relevant footage would need to be preserved quickly, the Gershon firm notes.
A Corridor With A Recent, Deadly History
The intersection sits within the jurisdiction of the NYPD's 44th Precinct, which covers the West Concourse, Highbridge, and Grand Concourse neighborhoods surrounding Yankee Stadium, according to background compiled on Wikipedia. Jerome Avenue itself is classified by the city as a Vision Zero Priority Corridor, a designation tied to heavy traffic volumes, frequent double parking, and the visibility obstructions created by the elevated steel columns of the IRT Jerome Avenue Line's 4 train overhead, as Hoodline has previously reported.
This is not the corridor's first serious pedestrian strike. On May 31, 60-year-old Kitt Hamilton was struck by a vehicle in a hit-and-run along the same Jerome Avenue corridor and died days later. Unlike that case, in which the driver fled, the driver in Tuesday's crash remained at the scene to cooperate with police.
Borough-Wide Numbers Tell A Mixed Story
Bronx traffic fatalities fell sharply from 54 deaths in 2024 to 33 in 2025, a 39 percent drop that was the steepest single-year improvement of any city borough, according to data cited by AEE Law. Even so, serious pedestrian crashes remain a concern in the Bronx, including on South Bronx corridors like Jerome Avenue.
Serious crashes can raise questions about roadway design and signal timing. The crash also puts pedestrian safety along Jerome Avenue in focus.
No further medical updates on the victim's condition have been released, and it remains unclear whether surveillance footage from businesses near the stadium will confirm the state of the crosswalk signal at the time of the crash. Hoodline will continue following the investigation as NYPD's Collision Investigation Squad works to determine what, if any, charges the driver may face.
