An 81-year-old woman who was run over by a truck driver after she tripped and fell on an Upper East Side street around the corner from her home has died, police said Tuesday.
Akiko Omi was walking east on E. 59th St. with a cane when she tripped near Second Ave. and veered into traffic around 10:10 a.m. Monday, police said.
Moments later she was hit by a passing truck driver.
The truck driver never stopped and was last seen driving over the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge, police said.
Medics rushed Omi to NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell, where she died a few hours later.
Omi lived around the corner where she was hit, police said.
Police are still looking for the truck driver. It was not immediately clear whether the driver realized he had hit the woman.
