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# Bus Driver Charged For Fatal Crash On Avenue Z
- URL: https://bklyner.com/bus-driver-arrested-who-crashed-into-62-year-old-woman-on-avenue-z-sheepshead-bay/
- Published: 2015-12-21T20:31:18.000Z
- Updated: 2015-12-21T23:52:23.000Z
- Author: Alex Ellefson
- Tags: Police & Fire, Sheepshead Bay, Southern Brooklyn, Transportation, b36, bus, DOT, nypd, pedestrian, police, Right of Way law, #wp

![Source: changeschanging / Flickr](/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/sb_bus_pic.jpg)

Source: changeschanging / Flickr

Police arrested the MTA bus driver who struck and killed a 62-year-old woman last week while she was crossing the street at Avenue Z and East 17th Street.

The NYPD announced Monday that the driver, 52-year-old Wayne Alman, has been charged with failure to yield to a pedestrian.

Alman was driving a B36 bus on Avenue Z last Monday night when he made a left turn onto East 17th Street and crashed into Eleonora Shulkina, according to authorities. Shulkina was [reportedly](/62-year-old-woman-struck-and-killed-by-bus-on-avenue-z/) on her way home with groceries for her family after finishing her shift at a Manhattan hotel.

The bus driver remained at the scene after the accident, according to police.

The arrest of the driver on Monday comes several months after the city announced a settlement with the MTA bus driver’s union over the new [Right-of-Way Law](http://legistar.council.nyc.gov/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=1688022&GUID=5BE864B6-D4CE-434F-88CF-D720F543B6AC&Options=&Search=&ref=bklyner.com), [the Daily News reports](http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/union-nyc-officials-settle-vision-zero-lawsuit-article-1.2343842?ref=bklyner.com). The law required that any driver who injures or kills a pedestrian crossing the street be charged with a misdemeanor. Following the settlement, the city amended the law to require that investigators prove drivers failed to “exercise due care,” according to the paper.

This summer, the DOT put forward a proposal to reroute the B36 bus down Avenue Z as part of a plan to create more pedestrian space around the Sheepshead Bay subway station. The plan was [opposed by the community board](/commute-proof-nyc-dots-mission-increase-traffic-congestion/), who argued the pedestrian plazas would attract more homeless to the area.