Cabbie Arrested After Fatally Hitting Woman, 77, In Chelsea: NYPD

CHELSEA, NY — Cops arrested a cabbie after he fatally struck a 77-year-old woman crossing the street in Chelsea Thursday, the NYPD said.

Daniel Fusaro, 82, of Queens was arrested after the fatal crash killed Iris Crespo, 77, of the Upper West Side Thursday, police said.

Cops rushed to the crash at West 22nd Street and Eighth Avenue Thursday about 1 p.m., finding Crespo lying on the ground unconscious with injuries to her head and on her body, police said.

Police said emergency medical personnel took her to Bellevue Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

The NYPD says the cabbie was driving a 2014 Nissan taxi northbound on Eighth Avenue when he struck Crespo within a marked crosswalk while she tried to cross West 22nd Street.

Fusaro at first kept driving before hitting a parked vehicle, police said.

Fusaro was arrested and charged with leaving the scene of a crash, failing to yield to a pedestrian, failure to obey a traffic signal and failure to exercise due care, according to police.

The incident left Eighth Avenue's northbound traffic blocked off at West 22nd Street for a period of time Thursday, according to the NYPD's 10th Precinct.

Crespo's death comes after police announced another pedestrian, Michael Collopy, 60, died after a crash with a cyclist nearby at Sixth Avenue and West 23rd Street, in the neighboring 13th Precinct.

In the 10th Precinct, there have been 54 pedestrian injuries and 28 cyclist injuries in 2019 as of Sunday, NYPD statistics show.

Crespo is the third traffic death in the 10th Precinct in 2019. Two others include a woman, 31, who was run over by a truck while walking less than a block from her apartment and a Citi Bike rider, 74, who was struck by a UPS freight hauler.