Vabita Arjune, 50, was hit by car late last month and died on Thursday. Photo courtesy of family.
Vabita Arjune, a home health aide and single parent of four died on Thursday after being struck in Brooklyn, New York by a hit-and-run driver who remains at large.
According to the New York Daily News, the Brooklyn resident was dashing from the laundromat to the supermarket when a hit-and-run driver slammed into her on Oct. 29. She succumbed to her massive injuries on Thursday at Jamaica Hospital — leaving two sons and two daughters.
.“Mom is all we had,” said daughter Davinine Boodhu, 25, who came to the U.S. with her family in 2008. “Yeah, you have family members. But it’s never going to be the same. It’s going to take some time to adjust — a really long time”, she said according to the report.
The 50-year-old Arjune had just left her 13-year-old daughter in the laundromat, and was crossing Liberty Avenue in East New York when the grey sedan ran into her around 7:30 p.m., two blocks away from the family’s home, the report added.
On the night before the accident, the report said that the family gathered to celebrate the Hindu festival of lights, Diwali. The report said that the victim’s husband died years ago in a freak electrocution before Arjune and the children came to New York.
