Crash driver gives away tot
A motorist crashed her car in Queens Wednesday evening — and then handed her infant passenger to a bystander before fleeing on foot, law-enforcement sources said.
“I’m going to jail, take the baby,” the woman said, according to a witness.
The woman first hit an SUV near 101st Avenue and Woodhaven Boulevard in Ozone Park before turning a corner and crashing into a stop sign and fence outside the Elizabeth Blackwell Middle School at about 6:40 p.m., witnesses said.
She then got out of the silver Honda Civic, which had New Jersey plates, and handed a year-old girl to a female bystander, along with a note with the name and phone number of tyke’s father, cops and witnesses said.
The woman left a shoe behind as she fled. The child was taken to a hospital for observation, police said.
Hours after the crash, a woman approached a WABC/Channel 7 news crew and offered herself as a witness.
But then she told Channel 7 she was the driver who had handed off the baby.
The woman claimed she had flipped out, fearing she would be arrested for driving without insurance.
“I turned to a lady I didn’t even know and said, listen, can you hold my daughter for an hour? I’m going to go down, regardless, because I have no car insurance, no license, I’m young, I’m just trying to learn how to drive,” the woman said.
“I miss my daughter so much, I would do anything in the world to get her back. I work two jobs and I have to have a car to get to work, to get home.”
Cops know the name of the wayward driver and believe she lives in the neighborhood, a law-enforcement source told The Post. Police were still trying to find her early Thursday.