Sheila Smith-Gonzalez suffered a brain bleed, a broken pelvis and arm when a car hit her while she was crossing Cooper Ave. in Queens back in November. 

“I was actually almost across the street, like so close to being on the sidewalk,” she explained, “when a white car came down 88th St. He was going very fast, and he just turned.”

Smith-Gonzalez is still recovering. Her fractured arm is now held together by bolts. 

She is not the only pedestrian struck along the Cooper Ave. corridor.

In December, police say a 79-year-old woman was killed crossing the street a block away.

Last week, a man was run over twice by two drivers near Cypress Ave.

And on Monday, two teens were hospitalized after their moped collided with a car at the same intersection where Smith-Gonzalez was hit. 

Surveillance video shows the car make a quick left turn and hit the moped.

Police say the 16-year-old female passenger was taken to the hospital in critical condition and the 15-year-old male driver suffered a broken leg.

Local Councilman Robert Holden said these latest incidents put the Department of Transportation on notice, again. 

He said, in the last two years, nine pedestrians have been struck and killed throughout his district. 

“Our streets are unsafe and DOT needs to do more and they are not doing enough,” Holden said. “We asked for study after study.”

On Tuesday, the new DOT commissioner, Ydanis Rodriguez, visited the intersection of Cooper and Cypress Ave., the location where a pedestrian was struck twice last week. 

“Help is on the way to this intersection and to the most dangerous intersections,“ he said.

Smith-Gonzalez said she hopes that help comes by the time she’s fully recovered. 

“In some ways, it is a silver lining because now maybe something will be done. It is not the first time,” she added.

DOT says the intersection at Cooper and Cypress Ave. will see changes in days. 

It is not clear what those changes will be.