An oil truck driver reversed into a 44-year-old pedestrian on the Upper East Side, went to check on him, then got back into his rig and drove off, prosecutors said Saturday.
Vincent Spano, a 33-year-old Palm Harbor, Fla., resident, was operating a dark-green and red oil truck early Friday near E. 61st St. and Lexington Ave when he backed up through the intersection and ran over Terrill Jenkins, who was in the crosswalk around 4:49 a.m., according to a criminal complaint.
Spano then drove forward and stopped the truck at the corner, got out and checked on the victim, then got back in the truck and drove off, per the complaint.
First responders found the victim crumpled in the roadway suffering from massive injuries across his body.
EMS rushed Jenkins to New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, where he died of his injuries about three hours later.
Jenkins lived in Harlem, cops said.
Spano was granted supervised release by Judge Jeffrey Gershuny after prosecutors requested bail be set at $75,000 cash or $150,000 bond at his arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court late Friday night.
Spano was arrested around 7 a.m. Friday after he turned himself in at the NYPD’s 76th Precinct stationhouse in Brooklyn and told police there that he was responsible for the deadly collision, cops said. He was charged with leaving the scene of a fatal crash and failure to exercise due care.
Spano admitted to police that he realized he struck something and observed the injured man before getting back in the truck and driving off.
He is due back in court on May 6.