MONTAUK, N.Y. (AP) — New York authorities say a Long Island woman who was struck and killed in a hit-and-run accident is the third member of her family to die in a pedestrian accident in the past two years.
Police say officers responding to a 911 call Monday found 54-year-old Pauline Aluska, of Lindenhurst, on the Montauk Highway. She was taken to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
Police tell Newsday she was struck a block from where her brother, 61-year-old John Aluska, was killed in September 2015 in a hit-and-run accident. The driver in that accident hasn’t been found.
This past Mother’s Day, May 14, the siblings’ sister-in-law was killed in Lindenhurst when a car struck her moments after she pushed her 16-year-old daughter out of the way.
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