A heartless mail carrier has been arrested for fatally striking a pedestrian in Hell’s Kitchen with his U.S. Postal Service box truck and then driving off without stopping, police said Sunday.
James Simmons was arrested Saturday afternoon for leaving the scene of a fatal accident earlier that day, cops said.
Simmons, 61, was driving a 2019 Peterbilt box truck downtown on Ninth Ave. when he slammed into 66-year-old Chester Mazur, who was crossing mid-block near W. 55th St., about 5:30 a.m., police said.
Medics rushed Mazur to New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell but he could not be saved.
Simmons did not stop after hitting Mazur and continued driving downtown on Ninth Ave., cops said.
Mazur was on the block where he lived when he was struck, according to cops.
“He was right in the middle of the street,” Dominic Accetta, the owner of Sacco Pizza on Ninth Ave., told the Daily News. “All I saw was a guy lying on the floor and he was not moving. I saw them put him in the ambulance. They were pumping (his chest).”
Simmons lives in St. Albans, Queens, according to cops.