Driver Charged After Upper East Side Pedestrian Death
Police said Darrell Lopez was charged months after he hit Virginia Renta, 78, while she crossed East 93rd Street; the city crash record says the SUV driver failed to yield while making a left turn at 2nd Avenue.
What We Know
According to the police report, a male driver in a 2023 Nissan SUV was making a left turn from 2nd Avenue at East 93rd Street in the afternoon when he hit a 78-year-old woman who was crossing with the pedestrian signal in the crosswalk. Police recorded failure to yield right-of-way by the driver. The report lists crush injuries to the woman’s entire body, and she was pronounced dead at the scene.
A left turn at an Upper East Side intersection
The city crash record says the crash happened at 2:28 p.m. on June 13, 2024, at 2nd Avenue and East 93rd Street. It records that the driver in a 2023 Nissan SUV was making a left turn and failed to yield to Virginia Renta, a 78-year-old pedestrian who was crossing with the signal.
amNY, citing police sources, identified the driver as Darrell Lopez and reported that he hit Renta while turning left onto southbound 2nd Avenue. The article says Lopez remained at the scene after the crash.
The crash occurred on a corridor with a long injury toll
The collision happened at 2nd Avenue and East 93rd Street in Manhattan. CrashCountNYC’s location context for 2nd Avenue in Manhattan counts 3,205 crashes, 1,880 injuries, 131 serious injuries and 12 deaths from Jan. 1, 2022, through June 1, 2026.
Police arrested the driver months later
The article reported that EMS took Renta to NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead.
Records differ on the SUV’s approach direction
The official crash record lists the SUV’s travel direction as south and its pre-crash movement as making a left turn. amNY reported that Lopez was heading west on East 93rd Street before turning left onto southbound 2nd Avenue.