Woman, 31, Critical After Hit By Land Rover On UES Street: NYPD

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — A 31-year-old woman is in critical condition after being struck by a pricey SUV in another day of vehicular mayhem on Upper East Side streets.

The woman was crossing York Avenue near East 87th Street Tuesday at about 9:30 p.m. when the violence unfolded, police said.

As she crossed at the crosswalk, a 71-year-old man behind the wheel of a 2017 Land Rover barreling north up York Avenue slammed into her, hurling her to the ground and leaving her with critical injuries, officials said.

The driver then swerved his luxury SUV into the opposite lane, smashing into a 2011 KIA yellow cab and injuring its 61-year-old driver, according to officials and CBS New York.

Footage from FreedomNewsTV shows the heavily damaged and crumpled front of the yellow cab.

That second collision had so much force that it sent the cabbie careening into a nearby parked Ford SUV, which was also damaged, police said.

Medics rushed the seriously wounded woman to New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center. Officials said that as of Wednesday morning, the woman remained in critical condition.

The yellow cab driver was brought to Elmhurst Hospital with injuries to his neck and back, police said.

An NYPD spokesperson said that the Land Rover driver remained at the scene and was not arrested nor issued a summons for triggering the tragic mayhem. The spokesperson also could not clarify what the status of the traffic lights were at the time of the collision.

The violence comes just a day after an 84-year-old man was hit by an SUV just a few blocks away on Monday. That driver, police said, was issued a summons.

Records show that since April 2022, the Land Rover has racked up five school zone speed camera violations, mostly in Queens along Hillside Avenue and Horace Harding Expressway.

As the investigation unfolds, according to a police spokesperson, charges could be brought later to the driver as a result.

The Upper East Side has seen 470 total vehicle crashes in the past year, according to Crashmapper NYC, which maps and aggregates city crash data. Those crashes resulted in three deaths and 570 injuries, according to the data.

Last fall, the Upper East Side saw a series of crashes when drivers slammed into pedestrians all over the neighborhood. One of those drivers was intoxicated and left an elderly woman critically wounded.