Driver Hits 30-Year-Old Pedestrian on York Avenue; She Dies
A 72-year-old driver hit Sophia d'Antoine as she crossed York Avenue at East 87th Street at about 9:28 p.m. on April 2, 2024, and the official record lists one pedestrian killed and two motorists injured.
What We Know
Sophia d'Antoine, 30, was crossing York Avenue at East 87th Street on the Upper East Side when police said a 72-year-old driver in a 2017 Land Rover hit her at about 9:30 p.m. on April 2, 2024. The official crash record lists the crash at 9:28 p.m., one pedestrian killed and two motorists injured. Police told the Post that the driver then collided head-on with a taxi driver, and a parked Ford Explorer was also damaged. D'Antoine, the founder of Margin Research, was taken to Weill Cornell Medical Center in critical condition and died three days later. The Post reported that police were still investigating and had made no arrests as of April 11.
A crossing pedestrian was fatally injured on York Avenue.
Police told the Post that Sophia d'Antoine was crossing York Avenue at East 87th Street during rain showers when a 72-year-old driver in a 2017 Land Rover hit her at about 9:30 p.m. on April 2, 2024. The official record lists the crash at 9:28 p.m. and records a 30-year-old female pedestrian killed at the intersection.
Police said the 72-year-old driver then collided head-on with a taxi driver, and the taxi was pushed into a parked, unoccupied 2022 Ford Explorer. The official record lists two motorists injured and a parked 2022 Ford SUV with no occupants.
Sophia d'Antoine died after several days in critical condition.
The Post identified the pedestrian as Sophia d'Antoine, the 30-year-old founder of Margin Research, and reported that she lived about half a block from the crash site. She was taken to Weill Cornell Medical Center in critical condition after the crash and died three days later.
The Post reported that the taxi driver, a 62-year-old man, was taken to New York City Health + Hospitals Elmhurst in stable condition. Police said the 72-year-old Land Rover driver remained at the scene.
Records and police accounts describe the involved vehicles differently.
The official vehicle record lists a 2017 Land Rover as a sedan traveling north and going straight before the crash, with left-front damage and unsafe speed recorded for that driver. The Post, citing police, described the same 2017 Land Rover as an SUV and said the driver was speeding.
The official record also lists a 2022 Kia sedan traveling south and a parked 2022 Ford SUV with no occupants. The Post identified the moving vehicle hit after the pedestrian impact as a taxi and the parked vehicle as a Ford Explorer.
Speed was a central issue in the available records.
The official vehicle entry for the Land Rover lists unsafe speed as a contributing factor, and the Post reported that police described the driver as speeding. The official fatal-person entry also lists traffic-control disregard for the pedestrian, but the reviewed sources do not provide a signal-phase account.
The Post reported that the Land Rover had been cited for school-zone speeding five times in three years and that the taxi had been caught by traffic cameras speeding in school zones 13 times in less than two years, citing traffic summons data reviewed by Upper East Site.
Police were still investigating when the death was reported.
As of the Post's April 11 report, police had not arrested anyone in the case and the investigation remained ongoing. The article also reported that it was not clear whether rainy weather played a role.
Where
York Ave & East 87th St, Manhattan