Woman, 31, fatally struck by hit-and-run driver in NYC: NYPD

A woman was fatally struck by a hit-and-run driver in Lower Manhattan, police said.

The victim was crossing the roadway at FDR Drive and East Houston Street at around 12:15 a.m. Saturday when she was struck by a black sedan traveling northbound in the left lane, the NYPD said.

The mortally injured woman, 31, was later pronounced dead at Bellevue Hospital, police said.


Police investigate the scene where a woman was fatally struck by a vehicle by a black sedan that left the scene on the northbound FDR Drive at East Houston Street.
Police investigate the scene where a woman was fatally struck by a hit-and-run driver on the northbound FDR Drive at East Houston Street. Christopher Sadowski

police at the scene with a patrol car with flashign lights behind them
The woman was struck by a black sedan traveling northbound around 12:15 a.m. Christopher Sadowski

“The vehicle did not remain at the scene and continued traveling north. There are no arrests,” a department spokesman said.

The NYPD’s Collision Investigation Squad is probing the incident. 

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