New York Daily News

Nurse killed as car crashes in Queens

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A church-going nurse died beneath her burning SUV in a fiery Queens wreck, after the runaway vehicle hopped a curb and slammed into a building, ejecting the woman from her seat, police said.

Neighbors believe Beverlee Jackson, 58, (inset) was heading home from her night shift at a Queens hospital Thursday when she lost control of her speeding car at 11th St. and 44th Drive in Hunter’s Point shortly before midnight.

Jackson, after she was thrown from the Honda CRV, became pinned halfway underneath the vehicle as the SUV spun around and burst into flames, police said.

She was pronounced dead with severe body trauma at the scene, roughly eight miles from her Brooklyn home, cops said.

The charred car, with its front end demolished, remained on the sidewalk hours later (photos right) as the investigat­ion continued.

“She worked in a hospital in Jamaica,” said the landlord at the victim’s East Flatbush apartment building. “She worked at one of the hospitals with the most COVID ... She was a kind, sweet lady.”

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