By David Greene
BRONX, NEW YORK, March 5- Police are looking for the heartless driver who ran-down a 61-year old man who was crossing the busy Grand Concourse.
Investigators were called to the Grand Concourse at Field Place, in the confines of the 46th Precinct, where police and paramedics discovered the victim in the roadway at just before 7 a.m. March 2. The still-unidentified victim was rushed to St. Barnabas Hospital where he remains in grave condition.
Police say the victim was crossing against the light, when the vehicle traveling southbound, struck the man and sped off.
An investigator from the NYPD's Highway One stood in the roadbed and photographed the scene with a 3-D imaging camera as two lanes were shutdown in each direction along the Grand Concourse, between E. 183 Street and E. 184 Street.
A single shoe belonging to the man was left behind on the street.
Detectives working the case are said to be looking for a light colored or gray sedan with front end damage.
Meanwhile, police sources say a Bronx woman is cooperating with investigators and will only face insurance fraud charges, in exchange for her cooperation in locating the driver wanted in connection with a fatal hit-and-run crash in Brooklyn on March 3.
Sources close to the investigation say Bronxite Cindy Jasmin, 31, was questioned by Brooklyn detectives at the 47th Precinct on Sunday, March 3. Jasmin reportedly reported the car stolen and with her cooperation police are now looking for the driver, Julio Acevedo of Brooklyn.
Police say Acevedo was behind the wheel of the 2010 BMW when it struck a taxi carrying a pregnant woman and her husband on Kent Avenue, as they headed to a hospital on Sunday.
The Orthodox couple were killed and their newborn baby died the following day.
Anyone with any information regarding either crash is asked to Call CRIMESTOPPERS at (800) 577-TIPS, and all calls remain confidential.
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