Ana Morel, 43, died after accused drunk driver Daniel Hyden , 44, allegedly mowed down 11 people after driving his Ford F-150 through a fence and into a park, cops said.
Morel’s mom, Zoila Henandez, said she tried to get her daughter to leave the party.
The mother of Ana Morel — killed on July 4 in the Lower East Side crash — holds a photo of her daughter. J.C. Rice Victim Ana Morel — a disabled woman — dreamt that she was hit by a truck soon before the fatal wreck. J.C. Rice
“I was going to a party in Poughkeepsie and I told her, ‘Come with me,’ and she said, ‘No mommy, I want to stay here. I feel safe to be here,’” Hernandez said.
“And then she sent me a picture from the party and she said, ‘I’m happy here with my friend, look.’”
Her daughter didn’t work and was on disability because she had brain surgery, the mom said.
She sometimes had trouble getting out of the house.
The death was eerie for Morel’s uncle, who said the victim had a predictive dream.
“Ana had a dream just last week that she was struck by a truck,” her uncle, who asked to remain anonymous, said.
Daniel Christopher Hyden, the alleged drunk driver accused of mowing down 11 people, three fatally, was arraigned on Saturday. Robert Miller Hyden’s F-150 crashed into a group of people who were at a gathering in a LES park. William Farrington
Hernandez said she found out about the crash from her sister around noon on Friday when she returned to the city and “went crazy” before heading to Bellevue Hospital.
Diamond Pinkney (left) lost family members in the 4th of July tragedy. William Farrington
“They sent me to the other side [of the hospital] and I knew something was wrong,” the teary eyed mom said of the hospital.
“Then they were not talking to me and I said, ‘Listen up. Tell me what’s going on.’ “
That’s when she found out her daughter was dead.
Hernandez, who has created a shrine to her daughter in her apartment, said she was planning to go to all of Hyden’s court dates.
“I want to be there,” she said.
“I want to see his face. He took a life, he took my daughter away from me.”
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