NEW YORK, April 11 -- Prominent cancer surgeon Jeanne Petrek died Monday after being struck by an ambulette near her office in midtown Manhattan.
Police said Petrek, a breast cancer surgeon and director of the surgical program at New York's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, was struck by the ambulette -- a van that carries people in wheelchairs -- as she was crossing East 64th Street and Second Avenue at the crosswalk.
The vehicle was turning left from Second Avenue onto East 64th Street when it hit Petrek, who was 57 and lived in Bronxville. She was taken to nearby New York Weill Cornell Medical Center, where she later died.
Police said the incident appeared to have been an accident. The driver was cited for failure to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk.
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