Syed Hussain fatally hit after leaving bus
Photo credit: Newsday/Alejandra Villa | Pedestrians crossing at the intersection of Hempstead Turnpike and North Franklin Street. (Jan. 10, 2012)
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Syed S. Hussain was on the way to his 3-year-old granddaughter's birthday party on the night of Nov. 20, 2005.
The retired store owner stepped off a bus about 8:30 p.m. and walked south across Hempstead Turnpike at Heathcote Road in Elmont, near Belmont Park's parking field and the Cross Island Parkway.
Hussain, 71, had crossed five of the roadway's six traffic lanes -- it is 85 feet...
