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19-Year-Old Dies in Staten Island Crash, Police Say

By Nicholas Rizzi | July 27, 2015 11:32am
 Alize Jorge, 19, died after the car she was in crashed into a pole in New Springville, police said. The driver, Hasim Smith, was charged with leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death.
Alize Jorge, 19, died after the car she was in crashed into a pole in New Springville, police said. The driver, Hasim Smith, was charged with leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death.
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NEW SPRINGVILLE — A teenager was killed and another critically injured after a man with a record of reckless driving crashed a car into a pole Sunday night, police said.

Hasim Smith, 22, was speeding his Mitsubishi Eclipse on Richmond Avenue when he ran a red light, swerved to avoid another car making a left turn and crashed the car into a traffic pole in the middle of the intersection at Richmond Hill Road, police said.

Police responding to the scene found Alize Jorge, 19, unconscious in the back of the car at about 10:45 p.m.

She was taken to Staten Island University Hospital North, where she was pronounced dead.

The other victim, 18, who was discovered on the pavement outside the car, was taken to the same hospital in critical condition, an NYPD spokesman said. She was not identified by police.

Smith was later arrested and charged by police with leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death.

In February, Smith was arrested after he tried to flee from police because he was driving with a suspended license. During that chase, Smith hit a utility pole then rammed a woman cleaning snow off her car, prosecutors said.

He was arrested twice in 2014, once for leaving the scene of another accident and another time for possession of cocaine, according to court records.

In 2013, he was arrested for blowing several red lights in Graniteville after trying to steal ATVs from a home there, the Staten Island Advance reported.