DA: Qns. hit-run susp left vic to die

The hit-and-run driver who mowed down a Tribeca man on a Queens street callously drove off with a smashed windshield and a damaged side mirror, leaving the victim to die, prosecutors said Tuesday.

Irving Duran, 28, was ordered held on $25,000 bail Tuesday, after slamming into 29-year-old Niklas Ahern as he tried to cross Continental Ave. in Forest Hills Sunday evening, prosecutors said.

Duran’s wife, Maria, was riding with him, his younger brother told the Daily News Monday. His wife told The News that they fled because they “were scared,” then backtracked minutes later, claiming she wasn’t in the car with him at all.

“First he thought it was a branch that hit his car, and then his wife said it was a person, so he was scared,” his brother, Christian, 19, told the news Monday night.

Duran made similar statements to detectives, telling them he thought he hit a tree branch but a passenger in his 2015 Honda Accord told him he had, in fact, struck a person, prosecutors said. Court documents don’t identify the passenger.

Duran, who was charged with leaving the scene of a fatal crash, faces up to seven years behind bars.