The girlfriend of the driver accused of fatally mowing down a stranger during a crazed road rage clash on the Upper East Side had a front-row seat to the mayhem — and claims her boyfriend and their children are the true victims.
Quenteria Daniels, 27, was being driven to work by boyfriend Andre Mosby with their three young kids in tow when the confrontation sparked off on E. 60th St. near Park Ave.
Mosby, 26, now charged with manslaughter, was driving west on E. 60th St. when his Volkswagen Jetta got into a fender-bender with the victim’s Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck.
Mosby’s Jetta’s side-view mirror was lopped off in the collision, cops and Daniels said.
“We were four blocks away from my workplace when this guy tried to block us and broke our car’s side mirror,” Mosby said. “My husband asked him to get back to his car and call the cops because we wanted to handle it the right way.”
One police source called the minor crash a “love tap.”
Daniels’ three children, two girls and a boy, were in the backseat when the pickup truck driver, 54-year-old Roberto Velez Alvarez, ran back to his car and retrieved a knife, she said.
“He raised his hand with the knife at us,” she recalled. “We were terrified. My kids were screaming and shouting.”
Velez-Alvarez started stabbing the Jetta’s tires with his knife, according to cops. Velez Alvarez’s heartbroken widow told the Daily News Thursday she doesn’t believe her husband would ever attack anyone with a knife.
Mosby allegedly gunned the engine and struck Velez Alvarez, sending him flying through the front glass window of the Oxford Cafe, police said.
Mosby’s Jetta kept going, pinning Velez Alvarez under the car, according to cops.
Mosby was taken into custody at the scene and charged with manslaughter and assault.
Daniels and Mosby have been together for a decade, the young mom said. She hasn’t figured out what she’s going to tell her children about his arrest.
“They ask about their dad,”…
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