Family Of Rego Park Woman Killed In Crash Sues Over Her Death

REGO PARK, QUEENS — The family of a Rego Park woman killed in a crash earlier this year has filed a wrongful death lawsuit claiming that the taxi driver who hit her shouldn't have been behind the wheel.

Sherena Hundalani, 26, was walking along 63rd Road by Queens Boulevard on Feb. 24 when a green cab driver cutting through the Mobil gas station at that corner struck her, dragged her underneath the car, then drove away, according to the complaint.

Hundalani died two hours later.

Lawyers for Hundalani's family are arguing the cabbie, South Ozone Park resident Lakhvinder Singh, was "medically and otherwise unfit" to drive a taxi thanks to an unnamed medical condition and a history of reckless driving, the complaint says.

"He had a documented history and record of unlawful and dangerous driving further rendering him unfit to be a licensed taxicab driver and to operate a taxicab in the city," the complaint reads.

Singh could not be reached for comment.

Brett Joshpe, one of the family's lawyers, declined to elaborate on the driver's alleged medical condition.

The suit claims that the city's Taxi and Limousine Commission, which licenses cab drivers, should have known about Singh's alleged medical issues and "repeatedly ignored and/or failed to detect the grave danger he posed to himself and others," the complaint says.

"This was a tragic loss of life. We'll review the case," New York City Law Department spokesperson Nicholas Paolucci said in a statement on behalf of the city and the TLC.

The complaint also names the Mobil gas station where Hundalani was hit, claiming that its owners allowed drivers to use the gas station as an illegal cut-through between Queens Boulevard and 63rd Road.