Cop mum on fatal 911 call
A 50-YEAR-OLD drunken driver lost control of his Porsche and slammed through a fence, overturning the vehicle and landing inside a Bronx playground, police said.
The man was speeding along the Henry Hudson Parkway near W. 231st St. in Riverdale about 7:15 a.m. when he lost control of his sports car.
The vehicle veered off the highway and hit a light pole before crashing into the playground.
During the madness, a tire flew off the Porsche, striking the rear window of a Honda CRV that a woman had just parked nearby, a source with knowledge of the case said.
The back window of the CRV shattered, and the woman was taken to New York-Presbyterian The Allen Hospital with minor injuries.
The Porsche, its front end destroyed, landed upsidedown next to yellow playground equipment.
Medics rushed the motorist to St. Barnabas Hospital, where doctors listed him in critical condition. He is expected to survive, authorities said.
The motorist reeked of alcohol and was carrying cocaine, sources said.
Charges were pending against the driver, whose name was not immediately disclosed. ONE OF the NYPD officers suspected of blowing off a 911 call about the assault of a Brooklyn woman an hour before she was found dead refused to comment Saturday.
“My friend, he said he’s not going to talk to anyone,” the brother of Police Officer Wael Jaber politely told a reporter outside the officer’s Bay Ridge home.
Jaber and his partner Police Officer Wing Hong Lau were suspended Wednesday after the department learned they failed to properly respond to a 911 call outside Tonie Wells’ home on Sterling Place in Crown Heights. Someone called 911 after hearing Wells screaming, “He’s going to kill me.” Jaber and Lau went to the address, but never got out of their car to investigate.
Wells, 22, was found dead at the bottom of her basement staircase an hour later after neighbors called 911, claiming the woman’s child was screaming, cops said.
Barry Wells, the woman’s husband, was apprehended by cops and taken to the hospital for a psych exam.