Authorities are investigating whether an NYPD cop was on her cellphone when her marked police van fatally struck a pedestrian in Williamsburg over the weekend, law-enforcement sources said yesterday.
The victim, Feliz Coss, a 61-year-old Spanish teacher, had the right of way in the crosswalk when he was struck by the van at Broadway and Hooper Avenue in Brooklyn at around 4:30 p.m. Saturday, sources said.
Police Officer Paula Mebrano, 45, was behind the wheel of the van, making a left-hand turn from Hooper onto Broadway, when she hit Coss.
She never saw him, sources said.
A witness later told cops that Mebrano was on the phone when the accident occurred.
Investigators with the department’s Internal Affairs Bureau will be subpoenaing Mebrano’s cellphone records as part of the probe, accoording to the sources.
Coss, a teacher at the Beginning with Children Charter School, lived near the accident scene.
He was pronounced dead at Bellevue Hospital.