A speeding U-Haul driver lost control and drove into an Arby's in Fresh Meadows, Queens, killing one customer.
Sixty-seven-year-old Caroline Leung and her husband had been eating near a window, and the Daily News reports the crashing van threw her from her seat and she was "pinned against a counter that holds the soda machines." A witness said, "There was blood everywhere on the floor and shattered glass. It was like worse than a horror movie."
Another driver told the News that the U-Haul had clipped him; the NY Times reports that a "van struck another van that had been stopped on Horace Harding Expressway, near Utopia Parkway," causing one of the vans"to mount the sidewalk and hit the restaurant." The U-Haul's driver Ioanis Kokiasmenos was charged with marijuana possession; other charges are pending.
Four people were injured, including Leung's husband. Her son said, "She was a great mother. I have a hole in my heart right now."
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