Posted on 09/25/2025 10:30:21 AM PDT by xxqqzz
MIDTOWN, Manhattan (PIX11) — A minivan driver is accused of hitting two German tourists, killing one, when he backed up into them in a crosswalk near Bryant Park on Wednesday afternoon, police said Thursday.
Alexandra Sabine Lewalter Maric, 50, and her husband, 55, were crossing the street when they were struck by a Toyota Sienna near East 40th Street and Fifth Avenue by the New York Public Library at around 2:40 p.m., according to the NYPD.
Investigators said the couple was pinned between the minivan and a box truck after the collision.
The woman was nearly decapitated and died at the scene, police said. The husband was hospitalized in critical condition with head injuries.
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Mohammed Abouzaid, 40, of the Bronx, was arrested about five blocks from the scene and charged with leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death and failure to yield to a pedestrian, cops said.
His arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court was pending on Thursday.
The driver has no prior arrests.
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He'll be back on the streets in no time.
The tourists didn't need to go to NY to experience such diversity, they could have gone to Berlin or Hamburg instead.
No Americans involved except for cleaning up this mess. RIP poor German tourist! Now the NY justice system will blow at least half a million dollars trying wrong way Mohammed and incarcerating him. Court appointed translators will earn their $80 (my guess) per hour.
Mohammed Abouzaid
They’ll probably issue an apology for inconveniencing him.
Does the mini-van escew pork and pray 5X a day?
“Mohammed Abouzaid, 40, of the Bronx”
Well the television says Mohammed is from the Bronx, so he has to be an American.
More American that anyone whose family has been here for three centuries.
More American than George Washington and Abe Lincoln.
More American than the World Series and apple pie.
Poor bastards..,they should have done due diligence and traveled to the United States and not New York City.
That sounds more French than German to me.
“Mohammed Abouzaid, 40, of the Bronx”
Of the Bronx Abouzaids.
...and the taxpayers will pay for inordinate street safety plans and designs to mitigate ignorant drivers instead of simply not issuing licenses to them.
Nah. They’ll reduce it to Backing Without Safety and fine him $500. Its New York, remember.
To be fair, this isn't even a crime in the s***hole country he came here from.
Just pay a little baksheesh to the family of the people you smoked and go on about your day.
Those are colonizers. Get it right.
Now these are Americans!
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