Woman, 81, run over by truck driver after stumbling into Manhattan street dies

An 81-year-old pistillate run implicit by a motortruck driver aft she tripped and fell into an Upper East Side thoroughfare astir the country from her location has died, cops said Tuesday.

Walking with a cane, Akiko Omi was heading eastbound connected E. 59th St. erstwhile she stumbled adjacent Second Ave. and fell into postulation astir 10:10 a.m. Monday, cops said.

A infinitesimal later, she was struck by a passing container motortruck driver.

The motortruck operator ne'er stopped and was past seen heading implicit the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge, constabulary said.

Medics rushed Omi to New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell, wherever she died a fewer hours later.

Omi lived astir the country from wherever she was struck, constabulary said.

Cops are inactive looking for the container motortruck driver. It was not instantly wide if the operator realized helium struck the woman.