A 22-year-old Connecticut woman was killed — but her 3-year-old son survived — when the child’s allegedly drunk dad crashed into another car in Queens, authorities said.
Maria Fernanda, of Stamford, was in the backseat of a 1997 Toyota Corolla with her young son — as the child’s father, 21, drove west on Park Lane South near Mayfair Road in Kew Gardens around just after 11 p.m. Sunday, cops said.
Suddenly, the dad, Daniel Aguirre, also of Stamford, crossed the double yellow lines and smashed head-on into a 2014 Toyota Camry heading east on the same street, cops and police sources said.
The parents and their child were pinned inside the Corolla and needed to be extricated by the FDNY, police said.
Fernanda — who was not wearing a seatbelt and sustained severe head and body trauma — was taken to Jamaica University Hospital Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead, according to authorities and the sources.
The tot in the backseat went to Long Island Jewish Medical Center as a precaution but had no visible injuries, cops said.
The damaged vehicle seen at the site of the fatal crash. ABC7
Police arrive at the scene of the fatal crash. ABC7
The father, who was driving, was allegedly intoxicated. ABC7Aguirre was taken into custody and subsequently charged with vehicular manslaughter, aggravated driving while intoxicated and driving while intoxicated, cops said. He went to the same hospital with minor injuries.
The 44-year-old Camry driver also suffered minor injuries and was taken to Jamaica Hospital, cops said.
