Connecticut Woman Charged With Assault For Driving Into Two Men At Clinton And Washington Avenues

Two men — one of them in a wheelchair — were injured, one seriously, when a 25-year-old female driver slammed into them in a series of incidents at the Fort Greene/Clinton Hill border that cops describe as anything but accidents.

Nikole Casimir, 25, reportedly hit a wheelchair-bound man at the intersection of Fulton Street and Washington Avenue at around 11pm Saturday, May 2, said police, who arrived as she could be seen arguing with the victim.

Then, Casimir allegedly began driving again, this time slamming into a man named Harold Reese, propelling him into the stairwell of the Clinton-Washington A/C subway station — leaving him with a fractured skull and fractured spine, for which he is being treated at Methodist Hospital.

The Connecticut resident faces several charges of felony assault and weapons possession for wielding her 2008 Subaru Impreza as a weapon. If convicted, she faces between five and 25 years in prison. She is next due in court this Friday, May 8.

Washington Avenue is one of several high-traffic corridors in the area that have been designated as a Slow Zone by the city under Vision Zero. Other intersections include Lafayette Avenue, Bedford Avenue, and Fulton Street. This means that speed limits in the area are lowered to 20 miles-per-hour and new speed bumps installed with the goal of helping to calm traffic flow.

As we noted last year, the slow zone area includes four schools and averages 62.4 injuries a year and six severe injuries or fatalities per road mile, according to the New York City Department of Transportation. The DOT did not provide information on how many speed bumps would be installed.