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Driver mistakenly puts limo in reverse, killing man in Brooklyn: police

A man was killed in Brooklyn last night after the limo he just exited began rolling backwards and pinned him against another vehicle, cops said.

Viktor Avaveyev, 53, and two relatives were being escorted out of the limo around 6:50 p.m. at Kings Highway and Bedford Avenue in Midwood when the tragedy occurred, cops said.

The driver, Yan Krainert, 50, from Brooklyn, mistakenly put the car in reverse instead of park and it started moving.

“I heard an impact and a woman screaming,” said witness Yevgeniy Zilberman.

“When I looked out, she was smacking the limo driver and yelling at him. The man was lying on the floor he must have backed right over him,” Zilberman, 27, said.

Krainert was taken into custody and was charged with vehicular manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide and DWI early today.