An ambulance driver who fatally struck an Upper West Side woman in November has just been arrested for the incident, according to NYPD officials.
The incident occurred on Tuesday, November 12 at about 12:52 p.m., when police received a call about a pedestrian struck at the intersection of Amsterdam Avenue and West 96th Street, a location Curbed dubbed “the Upper West Side’s Bermuda Triangle of pedestrian death” in a report first published in Jan. 2023.
Officers arrived to find 69-year-old Miriam Reinharth, who resided nearby on West 93rd Street, “conscious and alert with a broken lower left leg,” according to the original report. Reinharth was transported to Mount Sinai Morningside in stable condition, but sadly later succumbed to her injuries.
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Further investigation by the NYPD Highway District’s Collision Investigation Squad determined that a 2014 Ford ambulance, operated by a 28-year-old man, was traveling northbound on Amsterdam Avenue when it turned left onto West 96th Street and struck Reinharth, who was crossing the street from north to south.
On Monday, April 28 at 1:58 p.m., police arrested 28-year-old Juan Santana within the confines of the 24th Precinct (between West 86th and 110th streets). Santana was booked on charges of Failure to Yield to Pedestrian and Failure to Exercise Due Care.
Reinharth “organized community forums and literary events for the New York Jewish Week from 2007 to 2012,” according to the publication. Her husband, former New York Times reporter Steven Greenhouse, shared the news of her passing in a Facebook post the day after it happened.
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