Overview
- Police say a van exited a parking garage on Morton Street, made an illegal left onto the eastbound one-way, drove the wrong way, and struck a pedestrian in the crosswalk around 8:30 a.m. Thursday.
- Family accounts identified the victim as 27-year-old Valerie Schoeck, a Massachusetts transplant who was living in the West Village and planning a wedding next year.
- The 61-year-old driver remained at the scene and had not been charged as of Friday, and the vehicle was a 2020 GMC Savana with New Jersey plates, according to police.
- Residents report frequent wrong-way departures from the garage and say the exit lacks a visible one-way sign; NYPD briefly directed traffic and NYC DOT had not responded to questions by Thursday night.
- The woman was the 93rd pedestrian killed through Nov. 2 this year, police data show.