Hunt hit-and-run driver in crash

Police are still searching for the hit-and-run driver who caused the chain reaction crash that mowed down a 16-year-old immigrant from Tibet and four others along Queens Boulevard.
Nearly a week after the Friday, June 8 accident, the driver of the red Jeep Cherokee with Florida license plates is still being sought. According to police, the car had been traveling southbound when it slammed into a silver 1997 Honda Civic waiting at a red light at 47th Street.
The impact caused the second vehicle to jump the curb, pinning Tonpo Dorjee - who had just arrived in the U.S. a week earlier - against the light pole at that corner. Dorjee was being taught by his mother how to cross the “Boulevard of Death” safely.
His mother, Tenzin Nordon, 36, and three others - Enrique Segundo Mantilla, 40; Diana Albornoz, the driver of the Honda who had been going to pick up her son’s birthday cake; and Ysmelda Yinara, 36 - were also injured.
“I just saw this silver car run up to us, and then I know nothing after that,” said Nordon in reports.
She reportedly said that she had cautioned her son, “This is a very dangerous place. You always look at the light. You just don’t jump out. Just wait a few seconds then you go.”
The Jeep - which witnesses say was traveling at speeds of up to 75 miles-per-hour - fled the scene.
Dorjee’s right leg was crushed above the knee. It is unclear whether doctors at Bellevue Hospital - where he is listed in critical but stable condition - will be able to save the limb.
Nordon was treated at Elmhurst Hospital Center for bumps and bruises and released. Mantilla and Albornoz are also at Elmhurst; Yinara is in stable condition at St. John’s Queens Hospital.