Police found the 56-year-old unconscious and unresponsive after she stepped out of her vehicle into the manhole on the city's Fifth Avenue on Monday night.

A woman died after falling into an uncovered manhole in front of 653 Fifth Ave. in Midtown Manhattan, according to the NYPD.

A 56-year-old woman died after stepping into an uncovered manhole in Midtown Manhattan after exiting her parked SUV, police said.

An autopsy revealed Donike Gocaj’s cause of death as a combination of scald burns with inhalational thermal injury and blunt force trauma of the torso.

Falling into an open maintenance hole is one of the many urban nightmares New Yorkers worry about, along with falling through grates on the street and getting pushed onto the subway tracks.

Woman dies after stepping out of car into uncovered manhole in New York City - Donike Gocaj fell into the open hole after exiting her vehicle in Midtown Manhattan ...

The woman, Donike Gocaj, parked her Mercedes-Benz SUV right next to the maintenance hole Monday night near the corner of ...

WASHINGTON — A woman died after falling into an open utility hole on a busy Midtown Manhattan street late Monday, prompting an investigation into how the uncovered hole was left exposed in one of New ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 56-year-old woman fell into an open maintenance hole on a busy New York City street and died, police and utility officials said.