The driver of an SUV was arrested for allegedly striking and killing a 7-year-old girl just steps from her home after failing to come to a complete stop at a Queens intersection, police said.
The deadly collision claimed the life of Naadhun Dolma, who lived a few houses down from the intersection where she died following the incident on the night of Feb. 17, police said.
According to the preliminary report, the driver of a Ford Explorer, 46-year-old woman Claudia Mendez-Vasquez, struck the girl as she entered the intersection at Newtown Road and 45th Street in Astoria just before 6 p.m. It wasn't immediately clear if Naadhun was walking inside of a crosswalk.
Police officers responding to the scene picked up the girl and rushed to her Elmhurst Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
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Mendez-Vasquez, officials say, entered the intersection after failing to come to a complete stop. She remained at the scene, and nearly two months later was ultimately charged with criminally negligent homicide.
Attorney information for Mendez-Vasquez was not immediately clear.
