By Gabriela Resto-Montero
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
MANHATTAN — The girls riding in a car that flipped over on the Henry Hudson Parkway on Sunday, killing an 11-year-old Chelsea girl, begged the allegedly drunk driving Bronx mother to slow down before the accident, one of the injured girls said.
From her hospital bed at New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell Monday, Kayla Fernandez, 11, recalled the events leading up to the crash.
"The car was shaking," Fernandez said in an interview with the Daily News. "And then when I woke up there was a lot of light around, ambulance and police and one nice firefighter who helped me."
Carmen Huertas, 31, was charged with vehicular manslaughter and driving while intoxicated Monday for crashing the car that carried her daughter and six of her friends to a slumber party at her Bronx home, the New York Times reported.
Huertas remained in stable condition at Harlem Hospital with a broken arm and suffering from blunt-force trauma. She will be arraigned either on Friday or when she is released from her hospital bed, according to the Times.
Fernandez suffered fractures to her cheek, nose and left arm, the Times said.
Leandra Rosado died shortly after the accident. The rest of the passengers suffered non-life threatening injuries.
Melody Sanchez, Kayla's mother, said her daughter told her Huertas joked about how fast she was driving, the New York Post reported.
"As they were driving her own daughter said, 'Mommy slow down!'," Sanchez said Kayla told her in an interview with the city's newspapers. "And she said 'If you think this is bad, wait until we get on the highway.'"
Huertas had been drinking at a birthday party in her ex-boyfriend's home where the girls were dropped off, according to various news reports. Parents of the injured girls questioned the judgment of the other adults at the party who let Huertas leave with children.
"There were adults at the party," said Lenny Rosado, 45, Leandra's father, to the News. "Why didn't they take the initiative?"
