A driver who had been drinking was busted after he fatally struck a man trying to cross a busy Harlem street, authorities said.
Willie Zachary, 65, was crossing St. Nicholas Avenue near West 131st Street around 10 a.m. Sunday when Prince Julien, 23, driving a gray Honda Accord, slammed into him, cops said.
The victim’s head smashed the windshield, he was thrown about 60 feet and was declared dead at the scene, according to witnesses.
Onlookers said the driver was going so fast that it took him almost 200 feet to come to a complete stop.
“[The driver] got out of the car and started running toward the man on the ground,” said a security guard at a nearby building.
“The police were already there. They stopped him and told him to get back in his car.
“After talking with him, they put him in the back of an ambulance,” the guard continued. “I guess he was in shock.”
Julien was charged with vehicular manslaughter and driving while ability impaired by alcohol, cops said.