A Grandma is recovering after a hit-and-run on a Queens Street. Cops urge anyone with information to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers hotline at (800) 577-TIPS. Click below for more information.
A beloved grandmother who was mowed down and left for dead on a Queens street last month is slowly recovering — but the callous driver is still at large.
Bidi Kahn, 65, a widowed mother of six with “a bunch†of grandchildren, has been surrounded by her family at Jamaica Hospital as her face heals from the horrific wounds she endured in the hit-and-run nightmare.
She said the support of her family has been keeping her going.
“Maybe that’s why I had them,†Kahn told the Daily News. “I still can’t get over it.â€
The retired seamstress said she left her Jamaica home to buy a newspaper shortly after 8 a.m. on June 11.
She was walking down Hillside Ave., and as she crossed 187th Place, she was hit by a speeding black car, witnesses told police.
Kahn was briefly caught on the side of the car, her head dragging on the asphalt, before she was tossed to the edge of the road, the witnesses said.
“I crossed (the street), and after that I don’t know what happened,†a seriously injured Kahn said from her hospital bed.
Her injuries included a fractured skull and burns to the side of her face. Her ear was torn off and had to be surgically re-attached.
“She almost bled to death,†said her daughter Ameena Baksh, 45. “We couldn’t recognize her. . . . It was really, really horrible.â€
Baksh said her mother, a Guyanese immigrant and devout Muslim, still wakes up confused.
“We just want to know who hit her and just left her there,†she said.
A surveillance camera at a nearby bodega captured images of the wreck, but police were unable to get a clear image of the car’s license plate. The vehicle is described only as a black sedan.
Cops urge anyone with information to call the NYPD’s Crime Stoppers hotline at (800) 577-TIPS.