Woman is held in hit-and-run
A WOMAN DRIVING with a suspended license was arrested after striking a 74-year-old man in the Bronx on Friday — sending him to the hospital with grave injuries, police said.
The victim was crossing E. Gun Hill Road near Boston Road about 7 p.m. when the 2007 Hyundai Santa Fe hit him, cops said.
First responders rushed the man to Jacobi Medical Center with severe head trauma and fractures to the pelvis and chest, police said. Doctors listed him in critical but stable condition Saturday. His name was not released.
The 38-year-old driver, Kim Clarke of Yonkers, stayed at the scene.
Cops charged her with aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle after determining her driver’s license was not valid.
Her arraignment was pending Saturday.
The near-fatality comes after NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill trumpeted a “double digit” decrease in traffic fatalities compared with the corresponding month a year ago.
From Oct. 27 through Nov. 27, 14 pedestrians, bicyclists and motorists were killed on city streets — 16 fewer than for the same time period in 2015, a drop of 53%.
Police have promised to step up traffic enforcement in the weeks before Christmas as part of Mayor de Blasio’s Vision Zero initiative.
“The focus of that enforcement has had a big and positive impact,” de Blasio said at a news conference Tuesday. “Vision Zero has just begun. You ain’t seen nothing yet.”