The police have arrested a 47-year-old New Jersey truck driver in Tuesday’s death of a pedestrian in a hit and run in a crowded intersection near Times Square.
The man, Jack Montelbano of Bayonne, was arrested on felony charges of leaving the scene of an incident without reporting. He was expected to be arraigned Wednesday in Manhattan Criminal Court.
The police said Mr. Montelbano had been making a right turn from Ninth Avenue onto 41st Street in a privately owned dump truck, registered to a company in New Jersey, when he struck Shu Ying Liu, 69, as she was crossing the side street shortly after 10 a.m.
At least one witness among the throngs around the scene of the crash told Mr. Montelbano that there had been an accident, the police said, but he continued driving west.
Ms. Liu, who lived nearby on West 54h Street, was taken to St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, where she was pronounced dead.
City police detectives tracked the truck to New Jersey and located Mr. Montelbano there. The police then brought him back to New York for questioning and, after an investigation tied his truck to crash, they arrested him.
