Max Joseph, 37, of Brooklyn, was busted on drunken driving charges and other offenses after the head-on wreck just before 5 a.m. on Eastern Parkway at Troy Ave. in Crown Heights, cops said.
No one was seriously injured in the crash that happened when Joseph sped past the truck on its passenger's side, tried to make a left and spun out of control, cops said.
Be street smart, sez Mike
Most New Yorkers took Mayor Bloomberg’s advice and kept out of their cars – although one allegedly drunk man driving a car full of kids slammed into a snowplow in Brooklyn, cops said.
Max Joseph, 37, of Brooklyn, was busted on drunken driving charges and other offenses after the head-on wreck just before 5 a.m. on Eastern Parkway at Troy Ave. in Crown Heights, cops said.
No one was seriously injured in the crash that happened when Joseph sped past the truck on its passenger’s side, tried to make a left and spun out of control, cops said.
Bloomberg mentioned the accident as he reminded parents to watch their kids carefully in the snow.
“Tragically, one young girl lost her life a year ago when a sanitation vehicle did not see her playing in the street,” said Bloomberg, recalling a 10-year-old Brooklyn girl killed by a city snowplow in January last year.
Markita Ramirez was playing next to a snowbank at Richards and Wolcott Sts. in Red Hook when a sanitation vehicle hit her and drove off.
Cops later had trouble uncovering evidence pinpointing which truck was involved, and no charges were ever filed. The city recently acknowledged the girl was killed by the plow.
“City streets are not for playing in after a snowstorm, particularly one like this one,” Bloomberg said yesterday.
