The 51-year-old woman fatally struck by a driver on the Upper East Side was a kindergarten teacher on her way to the tony Spence School, police sources said.
Shruti Udeshi, 51, was in the crosswalk at East 76th Street and Third Avenue just after 6:30 a.m. Monday when she was struck by an Audi sedan, according to cops and police sources.
She was pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said.
Shruti Udeshi was a kindergarten teacher at the Spence School. Annie WermielThe driver, Connette Bercik, 59, of Oldwick, N.J., stayed at the scene and was slapped with a desk appearance ticket for failure to yield to a pedestrian, cops said.
The private all-girls school has kindergarten through 12th-grade programs, with a Lower School on East 93rd Street and an Upper School on East 91st Street.
A request for comment from the school was not immediately returned.
