Girl hit and killed by truck across the nook from her dwelling on Higher East Aspect days earlier than 82nd birthday
UPPER EAST SIDE, Manhattan (WABC) — A girl was hit and killed by a truck across the nook from her dwelling on the Higher East Aspect on Monday, simply days earlier than her 82nd birthday.
Yasuko Gerson simply had dinner together with her sister on Sunday, when she obtained a name the very subsequent day that nobody wished to obtain.
“The doorman mentioned, ‘Yasuko, I’ve unhealthy information for you. I’ve unhealthy information for you.’ I mentioned, ‘What occurred?’ He mentioned, ‘Your sister obtained hit by a automotive — truck.’ I mentioned ‘Oh my god,'” Yasuko mentioned.
Police responded to 59th Avenue and Second Avenue the place Akiko Omi was hit by a truck simply after 10:15 a.m.
Police mentioned the motive force didn’t cease.
Omi was taken to New York Presbyterian Hospital the place she handed away.
Yasuko was too upset to look on digital camera. She mentioned she visited her sister within the hospital for the final time.
“I opened her eyes and mentioned, ‘What are you doing, what are you doing?’ however no response. It is so unhappy. I am unable to consider in a single day, simply this minute it occurs,” Yasuko mentioned.
Omi walked with a cane, and police mentioned she stumbled whereas on the sidewalk, fell into site visitors and that is when the motive force hit her with out stopping and continued throughout the Queensboro Bridge.
“He ought to know that he hit any individual,” Yasuko mentioned.
Police are nonetheless looking for the motive force of a 2023 Ford Transit Join who fled from the scene.
Yasuko says she’s by no means needed to dwell with out her older sister.
“Now I’ve no objective a lot as a result of my sister is gone,” Yasuko mentioned.
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