Toddler killed by SUV( run down by driver entering crowded gas station)

[hadrons]

A 3-year-old girl being pushed along in a stroller in East Harlem was killed yesterday after a sport utility vehicle heading into a busy gas station ran her over, police and witnesses said.

A long line of motorists jammed a BP/Amoco station at East 125th Street and Second Avenue as Iris Gonzalez, 28, and her toddler, Jamie Roman, passed on the sidewalk at about 5:30 p.m., police and a relative said.

Two sport utility vehicles - one idling on a street ramp trying to get into the gas station, another trying to get off the corner lot - blocked their path, police and witnesses said.

The driver of the SUV heading into the gas station lunged forward, dragging the carriage under it before it barreled into a minivan waiting behind the pump, police and a witness said.

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The driver's husband, Eric Salgado, said the driver of the other SUV, which fled after the incident, honked repeatedly at his wife.

"She got out to call 911 right away," Salgado said of his wife.

The driver of the minivan that was rear-ended, Larry Spriggs, said the mood at the station, where regular gas went for $2.99, was tense.

"It was frantic," said Spriggs, a construction worker. "Everybody was waiting, moving slowly. Nobody had patience."

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http://www.nynewsday.com/news/local/newyork/nyc-nydead024407722sep02,0,3266586.story?coll=nyc-homepage-breakingheadlines

[tanyev]

1. Did it have a W04 sticker on the back window?

[sarcasmo]

2. East Harlem, I highly doubt it.

[Canuckistanian]

13. Are there a lot of SUV's in East Harlem?

That would surprise me.

[AspenRose]

3. Oh my gosh, the world is on fire

Madness.

[leftofcool]

4. By All That's Holy....................

I hate you, George Bush. I hate you in the name of this precious life. I hate you in the name of my brothers and sisters still stranded in New Orleans and Alabama and Mississippi and Waveland and Slidell. I hate you for the war crimes you and your shithead cronies have committed in the Middle East against brown people but I hate you more because you would commit genocide against my fellow Americans just because they are poor and Black. I hate you because you allow little children to die in the name of your gasoline god. I hate you. I hate you. I hate you.

Left of Cool

[Dervill Crow]

5. You put my feelings into words eloquently!

I certainly don't see GWB as any more of a humanitarian than Saddam Hussein is.

Now what was the reason for regime change in Iraq? Haven't we met those criteria here? GWB is a very bad man. He starved/drowned/shot his own people.

:banghead:

[MADem]

11. Under Saddam, gas was about three to five cents a gallon

And no one got run over at the pumps in Sadr City, either...

[mike923]

7. Bush was driving the SUV?

[Divernan]

14. In theory, Bush is piloting the Ship of State.

Or as Harry Truman said of the oval office, The buck stops here.

[Roland99]

6. O...m....g

Mercedes whipped out a video camera, and recorded the driver pulling back from the wreckage before accelerating into a parked yellow cab.

The child was rushed to Harlem Hospital Center, where she was pronounced dead at 6:10, police said. Gonzalez was treated at the hospital for shock.



:cry:

[ucmike]

8. the timing makes this more dramatic, but....

new yorkers get run over every day, kids included.

what got my attention was that you can get gas in manhattan for $2.99. I paid $3/gal last year.

[Divernan]

12. So the little girl is just "collateral damage"?

Just like all the little kids in Iraq? Hey, children died in Iraq before the war, too, right?
But what you care about is the one cent a gallon difference?
I think you've lost your way - morally and webwise. Go back to your hole under that rock called Free Republic.

[darkism]

9. Children dying over $3 gas

What has this country come to?

[samsingh]

10. so many people have died because of an action or result

that can be traced back to bush. had the storm been handled better, this may not have happened.