A Bronx car-wash worker was killed in a hit-run crash early Sunday when an SUV driver on the street smashed into the vehicle he was drying, police said.
Felix Bontia, 47, was standing near a Toyota Rav4 at the exit of the business at 1181 Webster Ave. around 5:45 a.m. when a black 2011 Ford Escape SUV with two women inside crashed into it, cops said.
“The sedan and the employee are struck by the SUV,” a police spokesman said. “Two females flee from the SUV on foot.”
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The Toyota’s driver was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital with injuries but was expected to survive. The worker, who lived in the Bronx, was pronounced dead at Lincoln Hospital.
Cops were still searching for the two woman who ran away from their SUV on Webster Avenue.
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