By Della Hasselle and Heather Grossmann
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
UPPER WEST SIDE — The driver of a white Dodge charger hit and killed a woman on the Upper West Side and then kept going late Friday afternoon, according to witnesses and the police.
The victim, who was not immediately identified, was hit at West 93rd Street and Columbus Avenue about 4 p.m., witnesses and police said. NYPD said the woman was about 60.
The driver of the car hit the woman and then kept driving west on 93rd Street, according to witnesses. She was stopped at 93rd and Amsterdam Avenue by someone who had seen the accident, people on the scene said. Police were then called.
A police officer at the scene said the driver was arrested on hit-and-run charges. The driver's name was not immediately released.
West 93rd Street was closed to traffic late Friday afternoon and a pair of shoes, a brown jacket, a grocery bag and other personal items were strewn across the street.
"I saw her body lying down on the ground," said Liset Conez, 30, who works at Royale Cleaners, directly across from the site of the accident. "They drove away very fast. After five minutes the fireman came."
A worker at a food cart across the street from the scene of the accident said she saw the woman thrown into the air by the impact of the car. A man who works at a nearby hardware store said he watched FDNY try to resuscitate her. Neither witness wanted to be identified.
This death comes on the heels of a report by the Department of Health revealing that Manhattan has a higher pedestrian death rate per square mile than any other borough.
