The veteran postal worker who mowed down the bike-riding sister-in-law of famed attorney Alan Dershowitz in Midtown was charged with leaving the scene of an accident, authorities announced today.
Ian Clement allegedly knew he had struck Marilyn Dershowitz, 68, a retired Manhattan Supreme Court special referee, on July 2 as she cycled along a stretch of West 29th Street, near Ninth Avenue, that runs beneath a Postal Service sorting plant, according to an indictment unsealed yesterday.
Clement “did not report said incident as soon as physically able to the nearest police station and judicial officer,” court documents state.
The victim’s husband Nathan, also a lawyer, was riding ahead of his wife through the tunnel-like space and didn’t realize she had been fatally struck until he saw cops responding to the accident.
“The mail truck just ran her over and kept going,” Dershowitz told The Post at the time.
His wife died at Bellevue Hospital.
“Since the DA brought charges in this terrible accident, in the interest of justice the Postal Service will not make a statement,” said a USPS spokesman.
Clement, 62, of the Bronx, has been employed with the Postal Service since 1987.