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Man dies three months after hit-run crash on Brooklyn expressway



An elderly Long Island man has died after clinging to life for three months in the wake of an horrific hit-run crash on a Brooklyn expressway, police said Sunday.

Athanasios Athanasiou, 77, of Farmingdale, was behind the wheel of a Honda CRV on the Gowanus Expressway near 86th St. on March 15 at 12:15 a.m., when he was rear-ended by a Jeep Wrangler, cops said.

The crash impact pushed Athanasiou’s car into a concrete barrier that separates the westbound and eastbound lanes of the expressway. The Jeep driver abandoned the vehicle and took off on foot, leaving Athanasiou on the roadway, according to police.

Athanasiou was taken to NYU Langone Hospital—Brooklyn for head and body injuries, and was eventually transferred to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he died Thursday, police said.

Police are still searching for the Jeep driver.

 

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