Mom who was killed after ejected from SUV
The boyfriend of a Brooklyn mom who was killed when she was thrown from his SUV was charged Friday with leaving the scene of an accident, manslaughter, driving while alcohol impaired and a host of other charges that could send him to jail for a long time.
Investigators determined that 29-year-old Danielle Aronsen was in the backseat of Andrew Berkowitz’s 2002 GMC Envoy late Thursday when he made a sharp right turn onto Bay Ridge Parkway from 5th Ave. — and she was ejected when the rear passenger door suddenly opened.
Instead of stopping, Berkowitz kept driving and when cops stopped him he refused to take a blood alcohol test, police sources said.
Berkowitz, 35, was also charged with vehicular manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide and driving while intoxicated, police said.
Aronsen was rushed to Lutheran Medical Center but could not be saved, police said.
“She was a beautiful woman, raising her 2-year-old son,” her heartbroken father Scott Aronsen said at the family’s Sunset Park home. “She was my only child. I can’t cry no more.”
He said he hasn’t broken the news to his grandson Andrew that his mother won’t ever be coming home and that his dad is in jail.
“He doesn’t know anything,” the grieving grandfather said, fighting back tears. “He’s two.”
Scott Aronsen said his daughter was a good mom and that her boyfriend lived with them.
“She was doing a good job raising him,” he said of her grandson. “She was a diehard Rangers fan. She was a Yankees fan, so we had our differences.”
There were earlier reports that Aronsen and Berkowitz, who had been at a restaurant, were arguing just before they got into the SUV around 11:30 p.m. Thursday. It was not immediately clear why Aronsen was in the back seat.
Growing emotional, the grieving grandfather said he knows very little about what precipitated the tragedy.
“She was coming home, they had gone out,” he said. “I don’t know what happened. I know she’s gone.”
Neighbor Joycelyn Perks said Aronsen doted on her boy.
“She was a very nice girl,” said Perks, 49. “She adored her boy.”
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