A panhandler begging for change on a Brooklyn street was fatally struck by an Audi driver who dragged him for a half mile in a harrowing hit and run, police said Wednesday.
Michael Foster was walking in the roadway on Caton Ave. near Flatbush Ave. in Flatbush when the speeding driver of a white Audi plowed into him at about 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, cops said.
The driver dragged Foster, 64, for half a mile before the victim fell away from the car, landing in the street near Linden Blvd. and Nostrand Ave., cops said.
He died at the scene. The Audi driver never stopped and sped off into the night.
The superintendent of the building where Foster lived said that he saw him the night the incident took place.
“I saw him at the stop light. He would go out to the cars and beg for change. That night a car must have come along and hit him,” Noel Clauson said.
Foster’s roommate John Isdore, 54, said Foster “was in a drug rehab program” and was a loner.
“He lived here with the two of us and we shared the apartment. He kept to himself and he didn’t have any family,” Isdore said.
No arrests have been made.
