26-year-old teacher Hwi Wu died last night after she was struck by a city bus while crossing the street. The accident took place near the end of the line for the Q58 bus outside the Myrtle-Wyckoff subway station, right on the border of the Bushwick section of Brooklyn and the Ridgewood section of Queens. Wu was crossing Palmetto Street when the bus struck her and trapped her underneath it. A witness told NY1, "The bus was turning, when it was turning, it hit her first on the left and she stumbled and she fell on the floor, and it ran over both her legs." The spot of the accident is a complicated one, six-way intersection where the elevated M train meets the underground L train and more than one bus line terminates. The Q58 in question appears to have been out of service and no charges are expected for the driver. Wu came over from China in 2002. had graduated from LaGuardia College last year and was working with autistic children at a Queens day care center.
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