An 87-year-old Brooklyn woman who was run over by her own automobile on Wednesday had been praying in the vehicle in her driveway for 20 minutes before the fatal accident, according to her distraught son.
Joan Behan, a grandmother of ten and a devoted Christian, had just arrived home from a two-hour workout and exited her blue 2013 Toyota Corolla after finishing her customary prayers, according to her son.
But catastrophe happened as she was walking behind her car, which she had never put into a park.
Police said the automobile went backward and crushed her outside her Gravesend house on West 10th Street at 3 p.m.
Behan sustained significant head and torso trauma and was taken to NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn, but she could not be rescued.
The octogenarian was highly active, healthy, and sharp, going to the gym several times a week, according to her 60-year-old son.
“Before the accident yesterday, she just came home from a two-hour workout,” David Behan, her husband, told reporters.
“She remained in the car in her driveway for about 20 minutes to pray.” “She always did that.”
“Then she wanted to get out of her car when the accident happened, and she died.”
Her son stated that she worked as a teacher’s aide when she was younger and had four children, ten grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.
“She made everybody’s life always very happy, no matter who she spoke to,” he went on to say.
“She had a positive attitude about everything. “Everyone loved her.”
