New York Daily News

Fatal crash vic a family man

- BY EMILIE RUSCOE AND THOMAS TRACY

A driver killed in a horrific Queens crash was identified Saturday as a hard-working family man.

Jianhang Zhuo, 40, of Queens, died at the hospital after he wrapped his white 2001 Nissan Sentra around a light pole near the corner of Rockaway and Guy R. Brewer Blvds. about 9:30 p.m. Friday, police said.

Neighbors said Zhuo was often seen driving his young daughter. One neighbor said he worked as a delivery person for a Chinese restaurant.

According to witnesses, Zhou was heading east on Rockaway Blvd. before he ran a stoplight and made a left onto Guy R. Brewer Blvd.

Zhou veered around a tow truck and was crossing oncoming traffic when he was T-boned by a woman driver heading west on Rockaway Blvd. in a 2015 BMW X5.

The mangled Nissan careened toward the curb, where it crashed into a light pole.

Medics rushed Zhuo to Jamaica Hospital, but he could not be saved. The woman in the BMW was also transporte­d to Jamaica Hospital with minor injuries.

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