Driver Charged after Killing Man in Hit-and-Run on Lexington Ave.

A 44 year-old man was killed in a hit-and-run on the Upper East Side in the wee hours of Friday, Mar. 20 when he was struck by a fuel truck that was reversing on Lexington Ave., police confirmed to Our Town.

Police subsequently arrested 33 year-old Vincent Spano, a resident of Palm Harbor, Florida. He was hit with charges including “leaving the scene of an accident resulting in a fatality” and “failure to use due care resulting in a serious injury.”

Spano was said to be revering the truck northbound against traffic, into Lexington’s intersection with E. 61st St., when he hit the victim—later as identified as Terrill Jenkins, of St. Nicholas Ave. in Harlem—while he was crossing the street.

Jenkins was discovered in critical condition at around 4:43 a.m., cops said. EMS rushed him to New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, but he could not be saved.

Footage of police combing the scene for evidence, while shutting down the street for hours, was accessible on the social media app Citizen.

It is the second fatal accident in uptown Manhattan to occur in nine hours. Less than four miles away from the fatal Upper East Side crash, an out-of-control driver in Harlem piloting a red SUV reportedly struck several vehicles, including a police car. He also struck an e-bike delivery worker, police said, killing him.

Police said that 49 year-old Kevin Crosby was arrested at the scene, and later charged with manslaughter and driving under the influence.

The car was estimated to be driving at speeds in excess of 60 mph, and finally stopped when it crashed into a tractor-trailer truck on W. 125th St. and Frederick Douglass Blvd., just outside the Apollo Theater.