A callous driver struck a 91-year-old man on a Brooklyn street Thursday - and sped away after he saw the victim hit the ground, sources said.
Milton Levine was crossing Avenue Y in Sheepshead Bay when the gray Nissan Pathfinder, turning onto Nostrand Ave., clipped him about 3:30 p.m., cops said.
The driver spotted Levine lying on the street, but sped off as a woman driving a 2010 Nissan Murano ran over the elderly man, sources said.
The woman stopped and found Levine's body sprawled on the asphalt between her front and rear tires, witnesses said.
"I heard a screech and a thump," said Levine's friend Alvin Hirschberg, 72, who was standing nearby.
Levine - who lived three blocks from the crash - was rushed to Lutheran Hospital, where he died two hours later.
"He was probably picking up the doughnuts and bread that they give him from 7-Eleven," said his neighbor Elisa Davis Martinez, 54.
Levine brought the treats to the Shore Park Jewish Center on Avenue Y five mornings a week, she said.
Levine also volunteered at the Kings Bay Senior Center.
BDE! Last year, there was an accident in Coney Island, where an man, who was 106 years old (and physically active) was killed by a car, while crossing the street.
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