Brooklyn man killed, woman injured as car falls 40 feet into LIRR train yard, NYPD says

A 70-year-old driver was killed and his passenger was critically injured in Brooklyn when their car slammed through a concrete barrier and was sent flying into a Long Island Rail Road yard 40 feet below street level, police said Saturday.

A medical episode set off the wild 12:41 p.m. Friday crash on Vanderbilt Ave. near Pacific St. in Prospect Heights — just two blocks from the Barclays Center.

Victim Francois Cadely and his 60-year-old companion were idling in an Audi Q5 at a McDonald’s parking lot on Atlantic Ave. when the 70-year-old motorist pulled out of the parking lot and made a right turn.

Cadely was unexpectedly stricken by an unknown medical problem and lost control of the wheel. The Audi continued to turn and ended up heading westbound before accelerating.

The speeding car blew through a concrete barrier and fence lining the perimeter of the rail yard and plummeted 40 feet to the ground below, taking the concrete barrier with it, police said.

The Audi crashed down onto the ground on its driver’s side, cops said. First responders pulled Cadely and the woman out of the mangled car and rushed them to New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, where the driver died.

The woman remained in critical condition with extensive chest and back injuries Saturday, cops said.

Cadely lived in Canarsie, about six miles from where he crashed, police said. It was not immediately clear how Cadely knew his passenger. The two have different last names and lived at different addresses, a police source said.