From the New York Post: The hit-and-run minivan driver who allegedly plowed into a married couple from Germany — killing and nearly decapitating the woman and seriously injuring her husband — has been charged in the terrifying Midtown crash, cops said Thursday.
Mohammed Abouzaid, 40, of the Bronx, was charged with failure to yield to a pedestrian and leaving the scene of an accident without reporting, and was awaiting arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court.
“I did not hit anybody,” Abouzaid, who has no prior arrests, allegedly told authorities when he was picked up, according to cops and sources.
Police said Alexandra Sabine Lewalter Maric, 50, of Hamburg, was killed when a 2001 Toyota Sienna driver backed up at a high rate of speed at East 40th Street and Fifth Avenue around 2:40 p.m. Wednesday.
According to the report, Abouzaid’s vehicle was first blocking the intersection. When he backed up, the husband and wife were pinned between his car and a box truck stopped at the light. The woman was nearly decapitated on impact and pronounced dead at the scene.
Officials said the woman’s husband suffered a fractured skull, and was hospitalized in stable condition. They had been celebrating his 55th birthday.
Abouzaid fled in his minivan, but was caught by police about an hour later.
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