Driver charged after fatal Upper East Side crash.
Driver Connette Bercik struck Udeshi Shruti Sundeep, 51, while turning left at Third Avenue and East 76th Street on Jan. 24, 2022; the city records the crash at 6:34 a.m. and one pedestrian death.
Location reported in Open Data.
What We Know
Driver Connette Bercik was turning left from East 76th Street onto Third Avenue when she struck Udeshi Shruti Sundeep in the crosswalk, Streetsblog reported. The city records the crash at 6:34 a.m. on Jan. 24, 2022, says Sundeep was crossing with the signal, and lists failure to yield as a contributing factor; Patch reported that police later charged Bercik with failure to yield to a pedestrian.
A left turn at the intersection.
Streetsblog reported Bercik turned left from East 76th Street onto Third Avenue and struck Sundeep in the crosswalk. The city record places the crash at 6:34 a.m. on Jan. 24, 2022, records that Sundeep was crossing with the signal, and lists failure to yield right-of-way as a contributing factor.
Sundeep lived and worked nearby.
Patch reported that Sundeep, 51, lived on East 76th Street near Second Avenue. El Diario identified her as a teacher heading to work at Spence School.
Patch identified the driver as Connette Bercik, 59, of Oldwick, New Jersey.
Reports describe the Audi differently.
The official record lists a 2018 Audi in the station wagon/SUV category. Streetsblog described a blue Audi Q5, while Patch and El Diario described an Audi sedan.
Police later announced a charge.
Patch reported that police initially said Bercik would face no charges because she had remained at the scene, then announced later that day that she had been arrested and charged with failure to yield to a pedestrian. Streetsblog also reported the later charge. El Diario described a summons and said police initially suspected no crime.
Reports differed about where Sundeep was pronounced dead. Patch and Our Town, citing police accounts, said she was taken to Lenox Hill Hospital and pronounced dead there. El Diario reported that she was pronounced dead at the scene.
Where
3 AVENUE and EAST 76 STREET