A Queens mother was fatally hit by two other cars in a tragic hit-and-run just a stone's throw from her home on Christmas Day. Her distraught son ran to her and urged her to keep breathing.
Authorities said Antonina Freycinet, a 45-year-old mother of three, was crossing 111th Street near 158th Street in Jamaica on her way to a grocery store around 9:30 p.m. when she crossed the same street west. The driver, who was heading towards the scene, hit her and drove off.
The impact sent Freycinet to the ground, where he was struck by a second car, a Ford Expedition, police said.
“When I ran outside and saw her, I thought, 'What the hell?'” said her eldest son, Andrew Daslas, 20. “I was just holding her and making sure she didn't move too much. At first she was on her stomach, then she rolled over onto her back.”
Dasras said he didn't realize his mother was the victim until he heard the crash and came outside and saw her “bleeding from the mouth.”
“She didn't say anything,” her devastated son told the Post Thursday. “I was just telling her, don't move, 'Mom, breathe, breathe!'” It took five to 10 minutes for the ambulance to arrive. ”
He said he was very careful to make sure she didn't choke on her own blood.
However, the mother could not be rescued and was taken to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead, police said.
The hit-and-run happened at the end of a low-key Christmas celebration for the family, which included Freycinet, Daslas, her 18-year-old brother and seven-year-old sister, and the children's grandmother.
“My sister bought Christmas sweets for my mother and made a cake for me,” he added. “She's seven or seven years old.”
Dasslas said the fear unfolded when Freycinet decided to go to the store to buy drinks for his family.
Daslas described his mother as a “loving and caring person” from Haiti.
“She was a quiet, easy-going person,” he said. “She always wanted to do the right thing.”
When Dasrath was just 11 years old, his father was involved in a car accident due to a defective tire out of state, and now lives in a nursing home.
The suspect in the fatal Christmas Day hit-and-run had not been arrested by Thursday, and information about the car or the person behind the wheel was not immediately available.
“If you saw that driver, the driver that hit her in the first place, you would say he should have stopped,” Dasrath said. “You should have been more careful! Please turn yourself in!”
Police said the driver of the Ford Expedition, a 64-year-old man, remained at the scene and was not charged with any crimes.
Officials say the man didn't seem to realize he had hit her as she lay on the street.
