Qns. crash nightmare
Mom & girl killed in grandparents’ car
A horrific twocar crash took the lives of a mom and her 10yearold daughter Wednesday evening in Queens.
The crash, which also left a 8yearold in critical condition, occurred by the Nathaniel Hawthorne Middle School on 210th Street near the Horace Harding Expressway in Bayside when a Ford Suburban SUV slammed into a Toyota Camry sedan at about 6 p.m., according to lawenforcement sources.
The vehicles were possibly headed in opposite directions.
The critically injured driver of the sedan, 74yearold Young Ju Ha, was heard moaning: “Oh, my God, my grandchildren, my grandchildren. Are they dying? They’re hurt — oh, my God,” a witness said.
Susanah Ha, 42, and her two children were riding in the back seat. She and daughter Angelica Ung, 10, were declared dead at the scene, sources said.
Her 8yearold daughter, Michelle Ung, was clinging to life at Long Island Jewish Hospital early Thursday morning.
The frontseat passenger in the sedan, grandmother of the two children ChungOck Ha, was in critical condition at North Shore University Hospital.
“I was inside and heard a big explosion,” said witness Annie Han. “When I went out to look, I said, ‘ Oh, no!’ It was horrible.”
The driver of the Ford Surburban, 46yearold Debra Burns, was hospitalized in stable condition.
“I heard the crash. Bam! Loud. Like a loud explosion,” said another witness, Rafi Chu.
“It was bad. A doctor who was driving by ran over and tried to help.”
Chu said he saw the fatally injured victims and the young survivor in the back seat.
“The mom and the two kids in the back seat were in bad shape. They were unconscious,” he said.
There is a 15mph speed limit on the street by the school and speed bump yards from where the accident took place.
“The SUV may have hit the speed bump at an excessive rate of speed, crossing the double yellow line and crashing into the other car,” a police source reported.
The white SUV was sitting on a tree stump late Wednesday as crash investigators did their work.
“It was a loud explosion,” said Carl Eng, 22. “The ambulances came very quickly and took everyone away. It was a terrible accident. Horrible.”
A police officer described it as an accident “you would see on a highway.”
Investigators were working to determine if either car was speeding.