{"id":214968,"date":"2026-04-30T02:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T02:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/214968\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T02:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T02:23:08","slug":"driver-arrested-for-fatally-striking-queens-mom-30-with-box-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/214968\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver arrested for fatally striking Queens mom, 30, with box truck"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man was arrested Wednesday for slamming his box truck into a Queens mom<\/a> who had just dropped her 6-year-old daughter off at school<\/a>, killing her in a crosswalk, cops said.<\/p>\n

William Cruz, 49, of Carteret, NJ, was charged with failure to yield to a pedestrian causing injury and failure to exercise due care for the fatal crash that claimed Jenny Maribel Chacho Sanchez on April 17. The top charge is a misdemeanor punishable by a $250 fine, up to 30 days in jail or both.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt this point, whatever they do, it\u2019s not going to bring my sister back,\u201d the victim\u2019s half brother, 28-year-old Christian Chacho, said of the charges. \u201cI know inside him, he\u2019s going to carry this his whole life.\u201d<\/p>\n

S\u00e1nchez, 30, was heading to work after the school drop-off when she was killed in the crosswalk on Gates Ave. at St. Nicholas Ave. in Ridgewood around 8:25 a.m., police said.<\/p>\n

\"AA memorial for Jenny Maribel Chacho Sanchez was left near the crash intersection at St. Nicholas Ave. and Gates Ave. in Ridgewood. (Emma Seiwell \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

The driver continued on his route after striking the victim, but was stopped by police about a block away from the scene, cops said. Investigators believe the driver did not realize he had hit the woman with his truck.<\/p>\n

Chacho S\u00e1nchez suffered severe head and body injuries and was rushed to Wyckoff Heights Medical Center<\/a>, where she died.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was her last goodbye,\u201d Christian Chacho, said of the school drop-off. \u201cThat was like her little princess. One of the biggest things for her was to see her daughter\u2019s Sweet 15,\u201d he said, referring to a girl\u2019s quincea\u00f1era celebration.<\/p>\n

The victim\u2019s parents were in Ecuador Wednesday, where their daughter was born and where they plan to lay her to rest, her brother said. Friends and family posted a GoFundMe<\/a> on April 18 to fund the trip.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re still in shock,\u201d Christian Chacho said. \u201cThere are moments we don\u2019t believe it\u2019s true.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chacho S\u00e1nchez immigrated to New York City in 2012 and had been working for years at a clothing shipping warehouse in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, when she was killed.<\/p>\n

She was just around the corner from her father\u2019s home, where she had been staying with her daughter in recent months, when she was struck.<\/p>\n

At the intersection where she was killed, mourners set up a memorial at the base of a tree. Heart- and star-shaped balloons fluttered above bouquets of lilies and sunflowers, along with prayer candles and a photo of the victim.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t know what\u2019s gonna happen next,\u201d Christian Chacho said. \u201cYou could leave the house and things can just happen. She was a young woman. It\u2019s a shock.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was arrested Wednesday for slamming his box truck into a Queens mom who had just dropped…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,122,124,123,265],"class_list":["post-214968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}