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Man Charged With Killing Mother of His Child in Drunk Driving Accident

By Kyle Ligman | August 21, 2015 4:42pm
 Andrew Berkowitz was charged with killing the mother of his child in drunk driving accident.
Andrew Berkowitz was charged with killing the mother of his child in drunk driving accident.
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Andrew Berkowitz

BAY RIDGE — A Brooklyn man was arrested and charged with killing the mother of his child in a drunk driving accident after she was thrown from his car on Bay Ridge Parkway on Thursday, police said.

Andrew Berkowitz, 35, was drunk driving a 2002 GMC Envoy when he swerved onto the parkway from Fifth Avenue, causing her to fall out of the car from the rear passenger-side door, police said.

EMS found Danielle Aronson, 29, laying on the road with head injuries. She was taken to Lutheran Medical Center but she could not be saved, according to the NYPD.

Aronson and Berkowitz have a two-year old son together also named Andrew, according to their Facebook pages.

Berkowitz is charged with manslaughter, vehicular manslaughter, reckless driving, criminally negligent homicide, driving while intoxicated, driving while ability impaired and leaving the scene of an accident, according to police.