One-year-old Lian Mashini is the tenth child killed in traffic collisions so far this year, according to the group Transportation Alternatives, the highest number of children in nearly a decade.
Police arrested a Staten Island woman and charged her with failure to yield and failure to exercise due care after she drove into a mother and her baby who were crossing the street, officials said.The fatal collision occurred Thursday morning at around 7 a.m., just two blocks from the mother and baby's home.
According to police, 40-year-old Shannon Cocozza, who was driving a white Jeep Cherokee, was turning left onto Abbott Street from Scarboro Avenue in the Rosebank neighborhood when she hit baby Lian and her mother who were crossing the street.her getting out of her vehicle and approaching the mother and child. First responders rushed Lian and her mother to Staten Island University North Hospital, where Lian passed away. The baby’s mother was in stable condition, police officials said.
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