An educational-children’s-book publisher and author has died after she was hit by an FDNY ambulance in Herald Square last month, police said Thursday.
Susan Eddy, 69, was struck after she ran into the path of the ambulance, which had its lights and sirens blaring, on 35th Street near Sixth Avenue around 5:40 p.m. Jan. 23, according to police.
Eddy — who worked for Mondo Educational Publishing Company — had run into the street mid-block between two stopped cars and was hit by the ambulance as it was responding to a report of an unconscious patient at Penn Station, according to police sources.
The EMTs got out of the ambulance and began to treat Eddy, who suffered severe body and head trauma, police sources said.
She was placed directly into the ambulance that hit her and rushed to Bellevue Hospital, where she succumbed to her injuries Jan. 31, police sources said.
Eddy, who was married with a family, graduated from New York University and taught elementary school for 14 years before she began her publishing career. She worked at Simon & Schuster and Pearson Learning before starting at Mondo Educational Publishing in 2001.
Eddy also wrote her own non-fiction children’s books, including one on Cesar Chavez and another on Mother Teresa.
“She was an amazing woman and will be terribly missed,” said a family member.
“This accident is under investigation by NYPD and FDNY Safety Battalion,” an FDNY rep said.