


The hit-and-run driver who plowed into seven pedestrians, including an Italian tennis coach, in Midtown has been hit with multiple charges, police said Tuesday.
Imani Lucas, 29, has been slapped with seven counts each of attempted murder, assault, reckless endangerment, leaving the scene of an accident and reckless driving in connection to the Sunday night crash at West 36th Street and Sixth Avenue, authorities said.
She is believed to have suffered a mental health episode, and spent time at Long Island Jewish Medical Center before being brought back to the NYPD’s Midtown South stationhouse, cops said.
Lucas was driving a Honda Accord when she tore through a red light just before midnight, struck the pedestrians in the crosswalk and kept going — making her way through the Queens-Midtown Tunnel, authorities said.
One of the pedestrians — a 34-year-old woman who was initially listed in critical condition after suffering a spinal cord injury — was identified by a relative as Italian tennis coach Giulia Gardani, La Voce di New York reported.
Gardani, who was on the last day of her vacation with her husband when she was struck, has since been upgraded to stable condition. All of the other pedestrians also suffered non-life-threatening injuries, according to police.
Four men, ages 24 to 60, were also rushed to Bellevue, including a 27-year-old man suffering two broken legs, sources said.
A 32-year-old man was taken to Weill Cornell Medical Center, and a 30-year-old man refused medical attention at the scene.
The fleeing motorist then went on to strike two cars on the Long Island Expressway near the 188th Street exit in Queens before her car became disabled, police said.
Lucas — who tested negative for alcohol — was nabbed at the scene after cops matched her license plate to the Midtown crash, according to sources.
“It’s in God’s hands,” she told police upon arrest, according to law enforcement sources.
No one was hurt in the second crash, cops said. The other drivers were able to continue on their way after exchanging their information with police, authorities said.