Driver Kills Jazmine Marin, 13, Near Ozone Park School; NYPD Blames Victim
Update: The motorist who killed Marin and injured the second victim was driving an early 1980s Chevrolet El Camino with a racing hood scoop, per a Daily News photo from the scene.
A motorist hit two teenagers near a school in Ozone Park this morning, killing a 13-year-old girl and injuring the second victim.
Jazmine Marin and another girl were walking east across Cross Bay Boulevard at 149th Avenue at around 6:40 a.m. when a 55-year-old man hit them with a Chevrolet sedan, NYPD told Gothamist.
Marin sustained head trauma and died at Jamaica Hospital. The second victim was hospitalized with a leg injury.
Cross Bay Boulevard at 149th Avenue is a wide street designed to facilitate fast driving. A motorist killed 59-year-old pedestrian Francisco Camacho at the intersection in 2012.
The victims of today’s crash were approaching a nearby middle school, but it’s unknown if they were students there.
NYPD withheld the driver's identity and blamed the children in the press. From the Daily News:
The 55-year-old driver of the sedan remained at the scene. It appeared that he had the green light at the time and that the girls were crossing outside of a crosswalk, police sources said.
No charges were filed. Anonymous police sources told WNBC "no criminality is suspected."
Jazmine Marin was killed in the 106th Precinct, where officers had ticketed 372 drivers for speeding this year as of September, and in the City Council district represented by Eric Ulrich.
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