I’m guessing if it were an accident there would be details.
I’m also guessing nobody wants to talk.
The story definitely lacks details.
Was she standing in the street? Did the car drive up onto the sidewalk?
As someone who lived in/on Westwood Drive, {Approx 1/2 mile from Stahley Street} BRENTWOOD, L.I. N.Y., left in the mid 1970's. Nobody wanting to talk, is nothing new. Brentwood was the "arm-pit" of Long Island, now just more of the same spreading across Long Island.
While in High School, (Tenth -12th grade{s}) 1967-1970 we had "ARMED" Suffolk County cops patrolling the hall-way's. We needed them BAD!!!!