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An unlicensed operator has been nabbed a twelvemonth aft cops accidental helium abandoned his mangled Mercedes-Benz connected a Queens expressway and fled a hit-and-run crash that killed an MTA supervisor who was connected his mode to work.
Members of the NYPD’s Collision Investigation Squad arrested James Vennitti, 63, connected Tuesday for the Feb. 10 clang connected the Whitestone Expressway that near 43-year-old David Berney dead.
“Happy beyond words — determination are nary words to describe,” Berney’s sister Monserrate Berney-Glover, 53, said Wednesday of the apprehension aft 12 excruciating months. “When this had initially happened we spoke astir the unfortunate condition that a batch of these cases don’t get immoderate solution … We get to spot who caused the symptom for the family.”
Her member was driving his metallic Scion northbound connected the expressway connected his mode to enactment arsenic an MTA way supervisor erstwhile helium got into a fender-bender with a 28-year-old antheral driving a Toyota RAV4, cops said.
The 2 men stopped their cars successful the mediate lane and were checking retired the harm erstwhile Vennitti allegedly slammed his Mercedes into the rear of Berney’s car astir 6:15 a.m.
A 44 year-old antheral was pronounced dormant connected country aft helium was ejected onto the roadway connected the Whitestone Expressway connected Saturday. (Theodore Parisienne for New York Daily News)Relatives said Berney had conscionable returned to his conveyance and was thrown from the driver’s spot onto the pavement erstwhile helium was rear-ended.
Berney died astatine the scene. The 28-year-old RAV4 operator was knocked to the crushed successful the clang and treated astatine a adjacent hospital.
Vennitti drove disconnected successful his damaged Mercedes, which helium yet abandoned further down the expressway earlier moving off, according to cops. He lives successful Bay Terrace, astir 3 miles from wherever the clang occurred.
“You conscionable can’t instrumentality a beingness and deliberation you tin unrecorded your beingness without immoderate payback,” Berney-Glover told the Daily News a twelvemonth agone aft the crash. “Hopefully idiosyncratic determination sees it oregon knows what happened.”
“My member is astir 6-foot-1 [and] 220, 230 pounds truthful for you to beryllium ejected from a car, however hard was your car hit?” she added. “He wasn’t a tiny man.”
David Berney. (Courtesy of Family)A co-worker of Berney’s heading northbound connected the Whitestone Expressway a abbreviated clip aboriginal recognized the way worker’s car and alerted the MTA worker’s family, Berney-Glover recalled.
“Another supervisor yet called [Berney’s sister] and said, ‘Hey, we deliberation helium had an mishap connected the highway,’” Berney-Glover recounted. “The supervisor said helium hasn’t gotten here.”
A expansive assemblage indicted Vennitti connected charges of leaving the country of an mishap resulting successful decease and driving without a licence aft NYPD detectives determined helium was the 1 driving the Mercedes astatine the clip of the crash.
He was ordered released without bail pursuing his arraignment successful Queens Criminal Court Tuesday.
David Berney with his wife. (Courtesy of Family)Berney was raised successful Inwood, Manhattan, and aboriginal joined and had a son, who is present mediate school-aged. The household lived unneurotic successful Jackson Heights
He worked for the MTA for astir 15 years earlier his decease and had precocious begun talking astir retirement, his sister said.
“He’s missed,” Berney-Glover said Wednesday. “I don’t deliberation you tin benignant of quantify that.”
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