A garbage truck crashed into a car in East Harlem early Tuesday morning, setting off a chain reaction that sent vehicles into sidewalk scaffolding — which then collapsed onto a 75-year-old woman, killing her, police said.
The incident happened Tuesday, Dec. 23, just before 6:30 a.m. at First Avenue and 101st Street, according to the New York City Police Department.
Investigators say a private sanitation truck carrying a 47-year-old driver and a 50-year-old passenger was traveling north on First Avenue when it struck a double-parked BMW. That impact pushed the BMW into a double-parked Ford box truck…