Posted on 12/22/2006 4:01:08 AM PST by jimbo123
Most drivers have done it - fiddled with a CD, talked on a cell phone or scolded a child while behind the wheel, getting momentarily distracted from the road.
But a Yonkers woman who tried another mundane task while driving - putting on her makeup - paid a terrible price yesterday when she lost control of her car on the Henry Hudson Parkway in the Bronx and slammed into a tree, police said.
Lusaed Perez, 34, went into cardiac arrest and later died at St. Joseph's Hospital in Yonkers, police said.
"There was makeup all over the air bag," said a police source.
Open containers of cosmetics also were found in the front seat, the source said.
Perez was driving a 2005 black Mitsubishi northbound on the parkway about 7 a.m. when she veered off the road by a bend where the Henry Hudson turns into the Saw Mill River Parkway, police said.
Alone in the car and not wearing a seatbelt, Perez careened over 200 feet of grass before hitting a tree, authorities said.
Witnesses driving alongside Perez told cops they saw her applying makeup as she drove, the source said.
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just another!!!
Yeaaaaah,
just another airbag with tons of make-up!!!
good for us
“read a book”???
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