FIRE CRASH SON 'CRAZY'
The distraught father of a Brooklyn man accused of leaving a woman to die in his burning car called his son “crazy” Sunday as he questioned why he didn’t call police.
“Why not call 911?” a tearyeyed Mohammad Azam said of his son, Saeed Ahmad.
Ahmad smashed his 2007 Infiniti G35 sedan into a concrete barrier on the Gowanus Expressway in Brooklyn early Friday, police said.
The car burst into flames and Harleen Grewal (right) was trapped inside and burned to death. Ahmad hailed a cab to take him to a nearby hospital.
“He see the girl burn. Why he go? He crazy,” said Azam. “When I see him, I will ask him what happened.”
Grewal’s charred remains were discovered in the front passenger seat after firefighters subdued the flames. She was 25.
Cops believe the fire killed her because the crash damage was not severe, a police source said.
Ahmad admitted to drinking before the crash, police sources said.
Azam, wiping a tear from his cheek, speculated thatat maybe his son fled the scene because he was scared.
“I don’t know,” the dad added, be-fore saying his sonn stayed out too late. “I never know where he’s going. Who is this girl? Where they go, I don’t know.” The dad also criticized the taxi driver who gave his son a lift to Maimonides Medical Center. “One guy, burned, confused. In the taxi, why not call the police?” the father asked. “Why take him to hospital?” Ahmad’s brother Waheed Ahmad claims the 23-year-old did try to help get Grewal out before he was caught on tape calmly asking the cabby “Can I get a ride?” — and touted his sibling as a hero Saturday. “He lost his phone in the car [and was] unable to call the ambulance,” Ahmad, 21, said of his older brother. “He tried to get her out. That’s how his hands and his legs and his neck got burned.”
Ahmad has been charged with manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, leaving the scene of an accident, and aggravated unlicensed operation of a vehicle and speeding. He was still recovering in the hospital Sunday.
Family and friends of the victim described her as an “angel” following the fiery crash.
“She was an Angel. Good soul. Always making sure the person next to her is happy,” her boyfriend Kharan Dhillon wrote on Facebook.