Drag Racing Cars Kill Child in Hit and Run Accident - Perp Later Surrenders
This is an older new article with an update.
On May 8, 2008, shortly after midnight, two cars were drag racing on 164th Place and 109th Avenue in Jamaica, Queens.
One of the racing vehicles, a BMW, collided with a Ford Escape, ejecting from the back seat of the Ford five year-old Jordan Mclean, the nephew of the Ford’s driver. Jordan suffered head injury and brain trauma and was later pronounced dead at Jamaica Hospital. The other two people in the Ford were not seriously hurt.
Both the driver of the BMW and the other drag racer drove from the scene to avoid police.
Last night (Friday, May 9th) the driver of the BMW, Shelmar Adams, age 30, of Jamaica, surrendered to police. He was charged with leaving the scene of a fatal accident.
Commentary: I have a sad and perhaps too-obvious point to make. Although nowhere mentioned in the news reports of this horrible accident, if the child (Jordan Mclean) had been in a child seat or toddler seat with a seatbelt on, he could not have been ejected from the car, and might not have been injured. I hope his aunt can live with that knowledge.
