Man, 86, Struck By Car On Upper East Side Street: NYPD

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — A driver slammed his car into a senior citizen as he was walking across a Yorkville crosswalk Monday night, police said.

The driver, a 54-year-old man, was behind the wheel of a 2009 Nissan SUV about 10:15 p.m. driving on East 83rd Street, police said.

When the driver got to Second Avenue, he made a left-hand-turn and drove right into an 86-year-old man walking in the crosswalk, police said.

The man was rushed to New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center with minor injuries, officials said.

The driver remained at the scene and was issued a summons, but a NYPD spokesperson said they had no clue what the summons was for.

Since 2018, there have been 21 crashes at that Yorkville intersection, 12 of which resulted in pedestrian injuries according to NYC Crash Mapper, which aggregates NYPD and DOT crash data.