New York Daily News

2 cabbies fled fatal hit & run

- Adam Shrier Rocco Parascando­la

A WOMAN STRUCK and killed by a cab on the Upper East Side was left to die in the roadway by not one but two taxi drivers who took off, police said Thursday.

Before she was hit, the victim spilled out of a 2015 Toyota Camry taxi heading on Lexington Ave. between E. 69th and E. 68th streets around 5:05 a.m. Wednesday, according to authoritie­s.

Cops initially thought she stepped out from between two parked vehicles.

The cabbie, Azizur Mazumder, 46, continued down Lexington Ave., leaving his fallen passenger behind, according to police.

Moments after she fell, a second yellow cab heading downtown on Lexington Ave. ran over the woman and drove off on E. 68th St., cops said.

Medics rushed the victim to New York-Presbyteri­an/Weill Cornell Medical Center, where she died. Police do not know who the woman is because she was not carrying ID. Witnesses said she was homeless.

Mazumder, of the Bronx, was arrested at the corner of Lexington Ave. and 68th St. around 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, police said.

He is charged with leaving the scene of a fatal accident and reckless endangerme­nt, cops said.

The second cabbie remains at large. WHAT GOES AROUND, comes around.

A week after being fired from Seaglass Carousel in Battery Park, a disgruntle­d 21-year-old Brooklyn man returned and robbed $3,000 from an attraction employee at gunpoint, police sources said Thursday.

Terrell Sutherland, of East Flatbush, and his brother, Terrance Sutherland, 23, of Staten Island, held up the worker about 9:50 p.m. Wednesday, just 10 minutes before closing time, sources said. The pair didn’t get far. They were busted as they got off the ferry in Staten Island. They are charged with robbery, gun possession and menacing. It was the first arrest for both of them.

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