Queens family mourns 8-year-old killed by unlicensed truck driver in Woodside

Noshat Nahian, a third-grade student at PS 152, was walking with his 11-year-old sister and carrying a gift for his teacher at the time of the tragic incident. Mauricio Osorio-Palominos, 51, was arrested and charged with aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle and operating a vehicle in violation of safety rules.

An 8-year-old Queens boy walking to school, bearing a gift for his teacher the last day before the holiday break, was mowed down by an unlicensed driver behind the wheel of a tractor-trailer Friday.
“He was my son, my only son,” said the boy’s father, Mohammed Osma Miah, 40, sobbing outside of his Woodside apartment.
Third-grader Noshat Nahian was in a dangerous crosswalk with his 11-year-old sister at 61st St. and Northern Blvd. about 8 a.m. when the truck — driven by Mauricio Osorio-Palominos from Newark — turned left onto Northern Blvd. and hit him, witnesses and police said.
Police said the boy was struck by the truck’s back wheels while he was walking with his sister, Nousin Jahan Nishat. There was no crossing guard posted at the intersection.

The children were just a half-block away from their destination, the Gwendoline Alleyne Public School 152, when the tragedy occurred.
Osorio-Palominos, 51, was arrested and charged with aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle in the third degree and operating a vehicle in violation of safety rules, police said. He works for New Jersey-based RoadTex Transportation Corp.
The driver told police he didn’t see the doomed boy until it was too late, according to court documents.
“I was making the turn when the child stepped out,” Osorio-Palominos told police after the accident. “I did not see him ... I had almost completed the turn when I heard yelling and screaming.”