New York Daily News

Hit-and-run susp: I thought it was ice

- BY ADAM SHRIER and JOHN ANNESE With Thomas Tracy

A QUEENS nurse had a “weird feeling” that the ice she struck on her way to work was actually a person, but never went to the cops — even after her elderly victim died in her hospital, prosecutor­s said Thursday.

Geum Min, 58, is accused of slamming into 77-year-old Jum Sim Yim on Parsons Blvd. and 32nd Ave. just after 7 a.m. Wednesday. She’s charged with leaving the scene of a fatal accident.

Yim was walking home from church when Min’s 2016 Toyota Corolla hit her, then dragged her 193 feet, prosecutor­s said.

Min, who works at nearby Flushing Hospital, kept driving, then clocked in at her job, authoritie­s said. Medics rushed Yim to that same hospital, where she died.

When police arrested Min at home Thursday, she told detectives she thought she hit a chunk of ice, prosecutor­s said.

“I got to work and heard about a pedestrian who was coming into the emergency room. I then learned that the pedestrian was hit on Parsons Blvd. and 32nd Ave.,” she said, according to a criminal complaint. “I remembered the bump and the thing that got stuck under my car. I had a weird feeling all day that it might have been the pedestrian.”

Min said she told a colleague, and wondered if she should go to the police, but the co-worker said she “probably overreacti­ng.”

“After work I drove home and told my husband about the car, the pedestrian and my weird feeling,” she said, according to the complaint.

Min was granted supervised release. Her lawyer didn’t immediatel­y return a call seeking comment Thursday.

Friends of Yim’s family raised $1,300 on a GoFundMe site on Thursday. Donations will go toward her funeral, the site indicated.

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