A woman was killed in The Bronx and a man injured in Manhattan when they were hit by buses that kept going, cops said yesterday.
In each case, it was unclear whether the driver had even realized that the bus had hit someone before leaving the scene.
The Bronx accident occurred yesterday afternoon. Rachael Levy, a 51-year-old clerical worker at Montefiore Hospital whose daughter and son-in-law had both served in the Army, was fatally struck at West 236th Street in Riverdale.
Two days earlier, a Manhattan kidney surgeon was critically injured after being struck while riding his bike.
Lawrence Yoo, 33, was heading to work at NYU Medical Center at about 8:30 a.m. Friday when he was hit at Ninth Avenue and West 39th Street.
“The bicycle was in two pieces,” said witness Andrew Colvin.
Yoo – whose injuries included fractures of the pelvis, ribs and a wrist – was listed in stable condition at St. Vincent’s Hospital last night, according to his wife, Jessica Delaney-Yoo, a heart specialist at Roosevelt Hospital.
Delaney-Yoo, 29, said she was angry at not only the bus driver but also the NYPD, which, she charged, did not immediately assign a detective to the case.
“All the police did was write up a report,” she said. “There are almost no details at this point – only what my husband remembers, which isn’t very much.”
An NYPD spokesman said a detective was assigned, but declined to say when. It was unknown which firm or agency owned the bus.