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Boro woman dies in Kew Gdns. Hills car accident

Boro woman dies in Kew Gdns. Hills car accident
Photo by Ellis Kaplan

KEW GARDENS HILLS — A Fresh Meadows woman was killed Tuesday when the car she was a passenger in collided with another vehicle, police said.

Beatrice Perlitsh, 82, was riding in a 2002 Honda Civic driven by an unidentified person northbound on 150th Street when the car Perlitsch was inside struck a 2004 Lexus driving eastbound on 72nd Avenue, causing it to strike a lightpole, police said.

Perlitsh and her driver were both taken to Booth Memorial Hospital, where Perlitsh was pronounced dead, police said. The driver of the Civic was in stable condition, police said. The driver of the Lexus was uninjured, police said.