No Charges For Taxi Driver Who Fatally Struck Rego Park Woman

REGO PARK, NY — The taxi driver who hit and killed a woman in Rego Park in February won't face criminal charges for the crash, according to lawyers representing the woman's family.

The green cab driver hit Sherena Hundalani as he was cutting through a Mobil gas station at the corner of 63rd Road and Queens Boulevard on Feb. 24. She died two hours later.

An investigation by the Queens district attorney's office later found that the driver, South Ozone Park resident Lakhvinder Singh, had suffered a medical episode and hadn't actually fled the scene, according to a spokesperson.

"The Queens District Attorney's Office conducted a thorough investigation," the spokesperson said in a statement. "An expert determined that the driver of the vehicle had a medical episode - a condition that he was unaware existed beforehand."

Hundalani's parents were outraged at Queens prosecutors' decision not to pursue criminal charges against the taxi driver.

"The city government has failed our family on multiple levels," Prakash and Bina Hundalani said in a joint statement. "Bill de Blasio created the environment that killed our daughter. Now, the Queens District Attorney's Office refuses to prosecute Lakhvinder Singh, the man who accelerated his taxicab into our beautiful daughter, Sherena, and left her to die on a sidewalk."

"Our family deserves justice," they added.

The family's lawyers filed a wrongful death lawsuit last month that claims the cabbie never should have been behind the wheel.

The driver was "medically and otherwise unfit" to drive a taxi thanks to an unnamed medical condition and a history of reckless driving, the complaint alleges

"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.

The NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission suspended Singh's license to drive a taxi in February, spokesperson Rebecca Harshbarger said. His license has since expired.