Woman Hit, Killed By Hit-And-Run Driver, Bus On Upper East Side: NYPD

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — A woman was fatally struck by a hit-and-run driver and then by an MTA bus as she crossed an Upper East Side street on Thursday, police said.

The still-unidentified woman was crossing at the intersection of East 96th Street and Third Avenue around 6 p.m. Thursday when the driver of a dark-colored sedan heading north along Third Avenue hit her, as she walked within the crosswalk toward the avenue's west side, police say.

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The force of the crash thrust her from the crosswalk to the pavement in the avenue's center right lane, where an MTA bus driven by a 52-year-old man hit her again, police said.

Police found the woman unconscious and unresponsive, lying on the street with trauma across her body, authorities said. She was rushed to Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

The sedan driver fled after the crash, while the bus driver stayed at the scene, police said.

Nobody has been arrested but an investigation is ongoing, police said.

At least 63 people have been injured in a combined 58 crashes at the same intersection since 2012, including one previous pedestrian who was killed, according to city crash data.

That pedestrian, an 86-year-old, died in an Oct. 2014 crash caused by a driver's failure to yield the right-of-way, according to city records.