Elderly driver crushed to death by own car in NYC after she thought she parked it: cops

An 87-year-old woman was killed Wednesday when she was mowed down by her car in a “freak accident” in Brooklyn, police said.

The elderly woman thought she parked her blue 2013 Toyota Corolla in a driveway, but left the sedan in gear just before 3 p.m. in front of a home on West 10th Street in Gravesend, according to the cops.

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“When she walked behind the vehicle, the vehicle rolled over her,” an NYPD spokesperson said.

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Police were called to the scene, where they found the injured victim with severe head and torso trauma.

EMS rushed her to NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn but she could not be saved.

Cops did not release her identity Wednesday night pending family notification.

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