Cops arrest driver charged with 2023 fatal hit-and-run of Bronx car wash worker
A woman was arrested Wednesday for being driving a SUV who fatally struck a Bronx car washing worker during a flight offense on February 19, 2023, police said.
Trina Bryant, 32, was struck by accusations of guilty manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide and leaving an accident – killing Felix Thomas Bontia, 47, while drying the Toyota Rav4 black vehicle with a client with a fabric outside the car 24/24 on Webster Ave. Near E. 167th St. in Claremont at 5:20 am AM.
The Bontia, dressed in a blue jacket and a reflective vest, wiped the driver’s side of the vehicle after it retired from car washing in a bus lane, the authorities said.
“I am in shock. It doesn’t make sense. He was a good worker, calm. He has a family in Mexico, two children,” Milton Cardenas car director at the Daily News told the time. “We are in shock. It’s very bad. “
A car washing worker killed in the Bronx Hit and Run
Theodore Parisian / For New York Daily News The worker used a fabric to shine a black Toyota Rav4 just outside the 24 -hour car washing on Webster Ave. Near E. 167th St. in Claremont when he was fatally struck around 5:20, the police announced.
Bryant, who was driving a 2011 Ford Escape, broke a bus lane, plowed both the worker and the vehicle he was cleaning, sending the Toyota Careening to a car washing panel, a shocking surveillance video tweeted by a journalist of 1010 victories shown at the time.
“The car had lit a red light. There was 60 mph. There was no traffic at that time of the day. The street was empty,” said Cardenas. “He wiped a car. He has no chance. He was touched from behind.”
The doctors took Bontia to Lincoln Hospital, but he could not be saved.
A 58 -year -old Toyota driver suffered minor injuries in the incident. The authorities believed at the time that Bruyer was rolling with another passenger while the cops said that two women borrow with a Ford and run away.
Bryant’s indictment before the Bronx Criminal Tribunal was underway on Wednesday evening.
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