By Brendan Brosh and Jonathan Lemire
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Saturday, December 22nd 2007, 4:00 AM
A woman run over by a cement truck on Queens’ “Boulevard of Death” was remembered Friday as a devoted single mother.
Maricela Perea, 60, was walking to the Queens Center Mall when she attempted to dash across Queens Blvd. at the intersection of Woodhaven Blvd. about 1 p.m. Wednesday, police said.
Investigators believe she stumbled and fell underneath the wheels of a Commercial Concrete Corp. truck. The driver was not charged with any wrongdoing, police said.
“She told me she was going shopping that morning,” said neighbor Ann Mera, 40, who lives in Perea’s Jackson Heights apartment building. “I told her to be careful.”
Perea, an immigrant from Colombia, was raising her 15-year-old daughter by herself, Mera said.
“She was so caring, [and] she was always looking out for her daughter,” Mera said. “She was a very good mother.”
Between 1993 and 2000, Queens Blvd. has claimed 72 pedestrian lives, leading the Daily News to dub the street the Boulevard of Death.
The News had pushed authorities to make sweeping improvements to the road, significantly reducing the number of pedestrian fatalities.
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