NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- A 71-year-old driver was arrested in a deadly hit-and-run crash on the Upper East Side in which the victim was dragged for more than a dozen blocks to the Queensboro Bridge, police said Monday.
Abdul Hakim, of Queens, faces a charge of leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death in connection with the Saturday morning collision that killed 36-year-old James Mossetty, of Manhattan.
According to police, Mossetty was crossing York Avenue mid-block at East 72nd Street just after 5 a.m. when Hakim—behind the wheel of a Toyota RAV4—struck him and knocked him to the roadway.
The pedestrian was “lodged beneath the undercarriage of the vehicle and dragged until being dislodged” at the lower level of the Queensboro Bridge—more than a dozen blocks south of the initial crash scene.
The victim suffered severe trauma and was pronounced dead at New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center.
Police said Hakim didn’t remain at the scene but was later identified and arrested in Queens on Saturday night.
An investigation into the crash is ongoing, the NYPD said.