CAR HURTS TWO QUEENS CHILDREN PLAYING IN THEIR YARD

From: New York attorney Gary E. Rosenberg (personal injury and accident attorney and lawyer; serving Brooklyn Queens Bronx; Queens Injury Attorney)

On November 14, 2010 Anthony Grays, age 39, of Fresh Meadows, Queens, New York, lost control of his car after a dispute with his passenger, blasted through a fence and struck and injured two children in the front yard of their Queens home about 5 p.m., sending 4-year-old Aicha Sylla girl to a hospital in critical condition, the police said.

Aicha was trapped between the black 1998 Mercury Sable and a concrete wall. One neighbor ran to her aid and held up her limp body as another pressed a foot against the bumper to push the vehicle off her.

Her brother, 11-year-old Tydian, was in stable condition at Long Island Jewish Medical Center after the accident at 160th Street and North Conduit Avenue. He was trapped underneath the car but managed to roll out.

"It was horrible. The little girl was pinned between the bumper and the house," said eyewitness Whitney Scottborgh, age 43, who lives across the street from the house on 160th Street and North Conduit Boulevard in Springfield Gardens.

The accident occurred at 4:50 p.m., said Scottborgh, adding that the children's mom "came running out . . . crying."

"You only heard screams," Scottborgh said.

A Breathalyzer test showed that Grays had been drinking, and "he did confirm there was an argument that distracted him," a police source said.

The children's father angrily charged at Grays in front of the house, Scottborgh said. But the neighbor told him, "You don't want to do that," and he reluctantly backed off.

Though the police said that there was no criminality suspected in the accident, the driver,

remained at the scene after the accident and was arrested on unrelated charges of criminal contempt of an order of protection. The woman in the car with him had taken out the order against Mr. Grays, the police said.

The police had no details about the nature of the dispute between Mr. Grays and the woman in the car. The accident is still being investigated.

Comment: So, it seems the passenger had an order of protection against Grays, which he violated by having her in the car. No word yet as to why the passenger got into the car with Grays if she had an order of protection against him. Not surprising that they argued, but tragic that two children were accident victims here.