Bx. granny fatally mowed down
A elderly woman was fatally struck by a van as she tried to cross the street in The Bronx Friday night — and the van driver fled the scene on foot, police said.
Hilda Arocho, 82, had been crossing Pitman Avenue mid-block in Wakefield — just yards away from her own front door — when she was struck at around 9 p.m., police said.
The driver exited the vehicle, which was a rental van, and fled from the scene.
Arocho was discovered lying on the ground with serious trauma to her torso. The octogenarian was taken by an ambulance to Jacobi Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
No arrests were made on Friday night and authorities were looking to question the driver.