UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — Police have arrested a man following a hit-and-run crash that killed a 69-year-old woman on March 25, near the Upper East Side border, New York City Police Department officials said Monday.
According to the NYPD, the pedestrian, identified as 69-year-old Espina Bundley, was crossing from west to east on Second Avenue at East 58th Street when a driver in a 2024 Chevrolet Suburban, heading downtown on Second Avenue in the right lane, hit her at 4:28 a.m. Wednesday.
Medics rushed the victim to the NewYork Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center in critical condition, where she was pronounced dead, police said.
Police said the driver, 43-year-old Bryan Alexis Guashpa Rumipamba, fled eastbound on 57th Street, but was later arrested.
Police said Monday that Guashpa Rumipamba was arrested and charged with leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death, motor vehicle fails to yield to a pedestrian, and failure to exercise due care.
Guashpa Rumipamba is due back in court on March 31.
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