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A 63-year-old woman died Saturday after she was struck by a car involved in a multiple vehicle crash in Brooklyn, officials said.
Galina Truglio, 63, of Midwood was killed in part of a chain-reaction accident involving three cars at the intersection of Coney Island Ave. and Avenue N in Midwood at about 12:30 p.m., police said.
Cops said a 29-year-old man driving a 2013 Ford Fiesta south on Coney Island Ave. clipped a 44-year-old woman driving a 2009 Mitsubishi SUV east on Avenue N at the intersection. The impact sent both cars into a deadly spin.

Authorities say a former Rochester police officer injured on the job as a rookie 13 years ago has died in a two-car collision while being rushed to a hospital.

Police in the suburban town of Greece tell local media that 43-year-old Felicia Gilchrist had a medical emergency late Tuesday night and was being driven to the hospital by her father when his car collided with another at an intersection.

She was later pronounced dead at Unity Hospital in Greece.

New York State Police say a Virginia man was killed, and a passenger injured, in a one- car crash at about 8:11 p.m. Sunday on Hall Road in the Town of Oswego.

Neither victim was wearing a seat belt, police said.

Dennis J. Malone, 28, of 19 Hatteras Landing, Hampton, Va., was driving his 2013 Ford Fusion at a high rate of speed west on Hall Road, when he lost control and the vehicle went off the north side of the road, police said. The car traveled through a dirt field before striking a tree line off the roadway. The crash occurred about a half mile east of Chapel Road.