A grandmother from the Bronx was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver near JFK Airport in Springfield Gardens on Saturday morning.
Police from the 113th Precinct in Jamaica responded to a 911 call of a pedestrian struck at the intersection of 150th Street and North Conduit Avenue at 6 a.m. on Nov. 23.
EMS transported the injured woman to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead a short while later. The NYPD identified the victim on Sunday as 47-year-old Lucia Grant, a home health aide who had been living at the Holiday Inn Express Kennedy Airport, located at 153-70 South Conduit Avenue, after she was displaced by a fire at her Bronx apartment.
A preliminary investigation by the NYPD’s Highway District Collision Investigation Squad determined that Grant was attempting to cross North Conduit Avenue from north to south when she was struck by an unknown vehicle that was traveling westbound on North Conduit Avenue and sped away from the scene. There have been no arrests, and the NYPD’s Highway District Collision Investigation Squad continues to investigate the fatal collision.
A family friend has set up a GoFundMe account to help pay for her funeral and memorial.
