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A South Ozone Park man was indicted for manslaughter for a fatal hit-and-run collision that killed a highway worker near JFK Airport while allegedly racing to a nearby Dunkin\u2019 Donuts. <\/p>\n
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A South Ozone Park<\/a> hit-and-run driver was arraigned Thursday on an indictment charging him with manslaughter, assault, leaving the scene and other crimes for the death of a construction zone flag worker from the Bronx on the Nassau Expressway who was allegedly struck and killed<\/a> by him near JFK Airport in September.<\/p>\n Daveanand Budhai<\/a>, 25, of 115th Street, was arraigned in Queens Supreme Court on an eight-count indictment for allegedly driving with a suspended license at twice the posted speed limit when he fatally struck 44-year-old Isabel Alvarez, from the Longwood<\/a> section of the Bronx, while on his way to a Dunkin\u2019 Donuts.<\/p>\n According to the charges, just before 7:30 a.m. on Sept. 19, the defendant was behind the wheel of a white 2018 Infiniti Q50S going eastbound at a high rate of speed on the Nassau Expressway approaching Exit 1N, which feeds into the Van Wyck Expressway. The ramp, however, was an active construction site, and the left lane was closed and marked with multiple traffic drums and signage. The posted speed for the ramp was 25 mph.<\/p>\n According to prosecutors, Budhai allegedly slammed into traffic drums and then struck Isabel Alvarez, 44, of Rogers Place in the Longwood section of the Bronx. Alvarez was a construction worker who served as the flag person, holding a paddle that read \u201cSTOP\/SLOW.\u201d She was also wearing her required safety equipment, including a hard hat and a fluorescent reflective visibility vest. At impact, Alvarez\u2019s body was thrown roughly 186 feet through the air. Her body landed on the left shoulder of the roadway. EMS responded to the location and pronounced her dead at the scene.<\/p>\n After hitting Alvarez, Budhai allegedly drove away from the area. He exited the expressway and stopped at 134th Street and South Conduit Avenue \u2014 about a mile from the scene of the fatal collision. Budhai called 911 to request an ambulance for injuries he sustained to his hands in the crash.<\/p>\n