Cops: Driver charged with DWI, vehicular homicide

The driver of a tour bus that struck, dragged and killed a man walking in Manhattan late Saturday was charged with driving while intoxicated and vehicular homicide, New York City police said yesterday.

Steve Drappel, 57, of West Palm Beach, Fla., was charged in connection with the 10 p.m. accident at 47th Street and Ninth Avenue.

Drappel, driving a Travel Lynx sightseeing bus with about 40 passengers aboard, struck Timothy White, 29, of Philadelphia, as he was crossing a Hell's Kitchen street, according to police. His body was dragged several yards and found beneath the bus with severe torso wounds, police said. He was taken to Bellevue Hospital where he was pronounced dead, they said. None of the passengers was injured.