Inwood Crash Leaves Pedestrian Dead

By Timothy Bolger Posted on March 26, 2014

A 25-year-old Queens man was fatally struck by an SUV in Inwood on Tuesday evening.

Nassau County police said Alexandre Pougatchev of Woodside was walking in Nassau Avenue when he was struck by a Dodge Ram pick up truck at 5 p.m.

The victim was taken to St. John’s Hospital in Queens, where he was pronounced dead an hour later.

The 49-year-old man driving the truck was not hurt.

Homicide Squad detectives impounded the SUV for a brake and safety test, but no criminality is suspected.

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Timothy Bolger

Timothy Bolger is the Editor in Chief of the Long Island Press who’s been working to uncover unreported stories since shortly after it launched in 2003. When he’s not editing, getting hassled by The Man or fielding cold calls to the newsroom, he covers crime, general interest and political news in addition to reporting longer, sometimes investigative features. He won’t be happy until everyone is as pissed off as he is about how screwed up Lawn Guyland is.