NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — A 71-year-old driver was arrested in a deadly hit-and-run crash on the Upper East Side in which the victim was dragged for more than a dozen blocks to the Queensboro Bridge, police said Monday.
Abdul Hakim, of Queens, faces a charge of leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death in connection with the Saturday morning collision that killed 36-year-old James Mossetty, of Manhattan.
According to police, Mossetty was crossing York Avenue mid-block at East 72nd Street just after 5 a.m. when Hakim—behind the wheel of a Toyota RAV4—struck him and knocked him to the roadway…