A driver in a van fatally injures an Upper West Side woman.
A 58-year-old driver in a northbound passenger van struck 84-year-old Young Kwon at Amsterdam Avenue and West 96th Street at 7:35 p.m. on Jan. 15, 2023, police said; the official record lists one pedestrian death.
Location reported in Open Data.
What We Know
Police accounts said a 58-year-old man driving a northbound Mercedes-Benz Metris passenger van struck Young Kwon as she crossed Amsterdam Avenue at West 96th Street. The official record gives the crash time as 7:35 p.m. on Jan. 15, 2023, and records one pedestrian death. Police said Kwon, 84, was taken to Mount Sinai Morningside in stable condition, but her condition became life-threatening and she died later that night. The driver remained at the scene. Reports described a passenger van; the official record classifies the vehicle as a station wagon or sport utility vehicle.
Kwon's condition worsened after the crash.
Police said Kwon was crossing Amsterdam Avenue at West 96th Street when a northbound driver struck her at about 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 15, 2023. The official record gives the time as 7:35 p.m. and records one pedestrian death.
Kwon suffered neck and back pain and was taken to Mount Sinai Morningside in stable condition, police said. Her condition became life-threatening at the hospital, and she died from her injuries later that night.
Kwon lived in the neighborhood.
Patch identified the woman as Young Kwon, while 1010 WINS reported her name as Young J. Kwon; both said she was 84. Patch reported that she was an Upper West Side resident, and 1010 WINS said the crash happened about a block from her home.
1010 WINS reported that the driver was a 58-year-old man. Police said he remained at the scene and was not injured.
Reports describe the vehicle differently.
Patch described a 2018 Mercedes-Benz Metris passenger van, and 1010 WINS also described a Metris passenger van. The official crash record instead classifies the vehicle as a station wagon or sport utility vehicle. The official record and police accounts describe northbound travel.
A busy Upper West Side intersection.
The crash happened at Amsterdam Avenue and West 96th Street. Patch reported that West 96th Street is one of the neighborhood's busier intersections, with an entrance to the West Side Highway nearby.
The NYPD investigated the crash.
Patch reported that the NYPD's Highway Collision Investigation Squad was investigating the crash.