HARLEM, Manhattan (WABC) — A man has been charged after chaos erupted in Harlem Thursday night when an out-of-control driver flew down 125th Street, ramming into vehicles and two delivery workers on bikes.
The driver, 49-year-old Kevin Crosby, was charged on Friday with manslaughter and operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
One 28-year-old victim, Darly Zacarias, was pronounced dead at Mount Sinai Morninside, and the other victim, 33, remains in critical condition at NYC Health and Hospitals/Harlem.
Zacarias has a son who turned 10-years-old on Friday.
Juan Suero was with Zacarias moments before he was mowed down by an out-of-control speeding SUV in Harlem.
“That’s my best friend amigo – I’m so sorry,” Suero said.
Suero and his roommate Zacarias grew up together in the Dominican Republic and moved to the Bronx together five years ago.
They are both food delivery workers and worked 13 hours a day.
“He called me on the phone. Look. He called me on the phone yesterday. That’s his last time. He talking to me on the phone because next month we’re going to Santa Domingo,” his best friend Suero said.
But Zacarias never called back.
“I see accident there on 125th in Harlem. I asking for police who have an accident and it said no the truck but they have two delivery guys and one guy is dead,” Suero said.
Officers responded to the crash that happened around 8 p.m. at West 125th Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard, just outside the famed Apollo Theater.
Surveillance video shows an SUV hurtling east in the bus lane like a comet, with sparks flying and pedestrians scattering. The two workers are left bleeding in the street before the car strikes a parked police cruiser and slams into a truck.
The destruction spanned an entire city block.
Video indicates the delivery workers were struck from behind within two seconds of one another at high speed.
One 28-year-old victim, Darly Zacarias, was pronounced dead at Mount Sinai Morningside, and the other victim, 33, remains in critical condition at NYC Health and Hospitals/Harlem.
Three other people were injured while inside vehicles that were struck, including a 40-year-old man driving a RAV4, and a 23-year-old man and 28-year-old man inside a parked Lexus. All three were taken to NYC Health and Hospitals/Harlem in stable condition with complaints of pain.
Darlene Bell and her husband Curtis were barely 10 feet away, when the car flew past.
“We watched the first guy fly up in the air and come down when he hit him. I didn’t even realize it, but there was blood all on my shoes,” Darlene Bell said.
“He hit one, then he hit two. Then we ran down the street screaming, and then we see another person laying in the street,” Curtis Bell said. “And then we just these sparks as he was, like, sideswiping the vehicles and then he hit, that’s when he ran into the truck and the police car.”
“He was flying. He was 80, 90 on a speed and he was shaking when he was driving. The car was shaking, and he passed through us like that. We all got scared,” witness Asif Shaukap said.
The block of 125th Street is between Seventh and Eighth Avenues, Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard and Frederick Douglass Boulevard, respectively. This is one of Harlem’s busiest blocks, typically packed with people, buses, cars and bikes at 8 p.m.
There are bus lanes and speed restrictions to keep drivers from speeding, but witnesses say the car was going way too fast and left its lanes and seemed to be out of the driver’s control.
A witness said he thinks the driver may have been under the influence, or maybe drunk.
Police are still investigating exactly what happened.
A spokesperson with Los Deliveristas Unidos released a statement that said in part, “The tragic death of an app delivery worker yesterday is a devastating reminder of the dangers deliveristas face every day.”
The statement went on to say that “delivery work is among the most hazardous jobs in New York City” and one in five workers has been injured while on the job.
As for the suspect, Crosby has 19 prior arrests, including aggravated vehicular assault in June 2020 and unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in 2007.
In the 2020 case, he struck pedestrians and vehicles at Jerome Avenue and West Fordham Road. He has two convictions for driving under the influence in the past decade. His other prior arrests include for multiple robberies, criminal trespass, drugs in 2002 and assault in 2020.
Meanwhile, the deadly crash in Harlem wasn’t the only fatal accident in Manhattan where a driver was charged.
Hours later on the Upper East Side, a 44-year-old victim was struck at Lexington Avenue and East 61st Street by a southbound vehicle just before 4:55 a.m. on Friday.
A 33-year-old man has been charged with with leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death, and failure to exercise due care, leading to serious injury.
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