100-MPH DEATH RIDE
Newborn’s dad killed as child’s ma speeds in Wash Hts.
A horrific 100-mph car wreck killed a Bronx man and left the mother of their newborn son fighting for her life Tuesday after she lost control of her Honda while hurtling down a sleepy Washington Heights street, police said.
Eduardo Liranzo, 28, died in the crash that caved in the car’s front end and shattered its windshield about 1 a.m. on a stretch of road where the speed limit is 25 mph.
Driver Dhanairy Ramirez, 25, barely survived the highspeed tragedy, and remained unconscious in critical condition at Harlem Hospital, according to family members.
The runaway car was hurtling north at 80-to-100 mph when Ramirez lost control at St. Nicholas Ave. near 172nd St., sideswiped a pair of parked cars and then zipped another 18 blocks north before plowing into an MTA truck, police said.
The couple was pinned inside the car and was finally cut from the crumpled wreckage by first responders.
Liranzo “just had a kid,” said close family friend Carmen Sanchez, 54, inside a Bronx apartment filled with devastated family and friends. “Very good father. … He’s one of the best kids in the neighborhood. He was a very good son. He was going to church with his mother and everything. ”
Pieces of the car and a bottle of nail polish were left lying on St. Nicholas Ave. in the aftermath of the fatal wreck.
A friend of the dead man, in a post to Liranzo’s Facebook page, offered her sympathy to the victim’s children. In addition to his newborn, the young dad had a son with another woman.
“My heart is heavy,” wrote Bianca Jaimie Perez. “You were not suppose[d] to be gone this soon. May you Rest in Peace and May your children be reminded of your silliness and love you have for them. You will for sure be missed.”
The Honda finally came to a violent halt after slamming into the parked MTA truck with workers sitting inside near W. 190th St., cops said.
Medics rushed Liranzo to New York-Presbyterian Hospital Columbia, but he could not be saved. Ramirez was taken to the intensive care unit at Harlem Hospital, where her family waited for news as she struggled to survive.
“We’re not sure of anything now,” said a relative. “She’s in critical condition. She’s unconscious. Nobody can see her right now.”
One of the MTA workers, , New York-Presbyterian Hospital Columbia after complaining of unspecified injuries in the crash.
Washington Heights resident Diana De la Rosa, 76, tried to avoid looking at the aftermath of the heartbreaking wreck when she came outside Tuesday morning.
“Very bad,” said De la Rosa, who moved to the neighborhood 40 years ago. “I don’t want to see nothing there. I feel sorry, because I have a son. I’m thinking about that. Very sad.”
As Sanchez walked to the family’s Morrisania, Bronx, apartment on E. 167th St., passersby stopped her to share their condolences over the death of Liranzo. The victim regarded Sanchez as a second mother and referred to her as “Mami.”
“Parents shouldn’t have to bury their kids,” said Sanchez. “All I can say is tell somebody you love them. Don’t wait, because you don’t know when it’s going to be the end.”