A 71-year-old driver was detained in a deadly hit-and-run crash on the Upper East Side that dragged the victim more than a dozen blocks to the Queensboro Bridge, authorities said Monday.
Abdul Hakim, of Queens, has been charged with leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death in connection with the Saturday morning incident that killed Manhattan resident James Mossetty, 36.
According to authorities, Mossetty was crossing York Avenue mid-block at East 72nd Street just after 5 a.m. when Hakim, driving a Toyota RAV4, struck him and knocked him to the ground.
The person was “lodged beneath the undercarriage of the vehicle and dragged until being dislodged” on the lower level of the Queensboro Bridge, more than a dozen blocks south of the initial incident site.
The person died from serious trauma at New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center.
Police claimed Hakim left the area but was eventually recognized and detained in Queens on Saturday night.
The NYPD stated the investigation into the collision is still ongoing.