Assemblymember Ron Kim, Chinese Flushing Business Association Executive Director Peter Tu, Amy Tam-Liao and Hsi Pei Liao spoke during a Nov. 30 press conference held at the Flushing intersection where a 3-year-old by was killed by a hit-and-run driver.
Photo by Rachel Butler
Flushing leaders and community members gathered Thursday at the intersection where a 3-year-old boy was killed by a hit-and-run driver to ask for the public to come forward with information that may lead to the identification and arrest of the perpetrator.
The fatal accident occurred at the intersection of College Point Boulevard and 41st Avenue in Flushing, where a driver of a white, four-door 2014 Infiniti Q50 was reversing out of a parking lot onto the road and collided with 3-year-old Quintas Chen, who was crossing the street at around 6:30 p.m. on Nov. 29, according to the NYPD. The toddler was brought to the NewYork-Presbyterian Queens Hospital, where he was pronounced dead about an hour later, the police said.
Authorities are still searching for the driver, who allegedly sped away from the scene and ditched the vehicle at College Point Boulevard and Pople Avenue, four blocks south of the scene of the fatal collision, according to a police spokesman said.
Flushing Assemblymember Ron Kim, who led Thursday’s press conference at the site of the fatal collision, is urging members of the public with any information to come forward.
“I walk this street almost every day. I take my three young daughters to [pre-school] and kindergarten just around the corner. I frequently go to the Dunkin Donuts where the accident happened and I know how dangerous it is,” Kim said. “The vehicles are parked and backing out onto the road every day and it is not a safe sidewalk for families.”
Kim continued, saying that Wednesday night’s tragedy is not an isolated incident and College Point Boulevard has become one of many busy blocks in the city that are not safe for pedestrians and…
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