Photos by Stacie Joy
Updated: Police have arrested a 54-year-old suspect who is accused of striking the woman in the crosswalk, PIX 11 reported this morning. Streetsblog has a detailed piece here on how the NYPD made the case and the arrest.
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Police continue to look for the driver of an SUV who fatally struck a woman Thursday evening on the Lower East Side and then left the scene.
According to the NYPD, the collision occurred around 7 p.m. as the driver was making a right turn from Clinton Street onto Stanton Street. The woman was reportedly crossing Stanton Street from south to north in the crosswalk when she was hit.
Witnesses told police that a black SUV fled the scene immediately after the collision.
The woman was taken to Bellevue Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
The investigation is ongoing. Authorities have not released the name of the victim, who was believed to be in her 60s.
The NYPD has been canvassing the area in search of leads. Yesterday, officers were seen stopping drivers nearby.
Streetsblog cited city stats showing that in the 30-square-block Lower East Side this year, there have been 478 reported crashes, injuring 235 people, including 60 cyclists and 46 pedestrians.
Someone has left a handwritten message on the scene:
We are so sorry about the tragic loss of our neighbor during the holiday season. Our condolences to her family and friends.
5 comments:
While riding my bike on houston and orchard saw a car go thru a red light Cops were in a car near CVS i signaled to them but they did not see me I went up to the ca rand told them they did not care they were too busy looing at thier cellphones!
Your tax dollars at work.
7pm? Insane. Find the fool and throw the book at them. Clinton and Stanton isn't even a high speed area, how in the world are you killing people by driving so recklessly?
Cars fly on/off the Williamsburg bridge. A 12 yr old girl was killed in 2012.
I am glad they caught the guy hopefully he will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Us pedestrians really have to be observant and careful crossing these streets between the motor vehicle drivers who drive like idiots and the bicycle riders who do not believe that the traffic laws apply to them has made just walking down the block really dangerous on the streets, crosswalks and sidewalks of this city.
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