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NEW YORK (AP) – A woman driving home after a mid-afternoon vodka binge ran over a 3-year-old girl, her grandmother and her great-grandmother, prosecutors said, and didn’t bother to stop until several blocks later, when someone saw the toddler’s stroller being dragged and yelled, “Look what’s under your car!”

The girl, Mia Tetelman, and her family were crossing a boulevard in Queens on Saturday afternoon when they were run over.

Mia was hurled from her stroller, breaking her ribs and bruising her lungs; she was hospitalized Sunday in critical condition. Her grandmother, Aviva Govshovitz, 57, suffered cuts and bruises. Her great-grandmother, Frida Shein, 86, was left with a broken rib, a black eye and other injuries.

The driver, Susan E. Karnabe, went home after a passer-by pulled the girl’s stroller out from under her car, even though witnesses told her she had hit people, prosecutors said.

When police officers tracked her down at her Forest Hills home later Saturday, her breath smelled of alcohol.

Her walking was unsteady and her speech was slurred, prosecutors said.

She admitted drinking a bottle of vodka before getting in her car, and a test showed her blood alcohol content reading was 0.094 percent, above New York’s legal limit of 0.08 percent, they said.

Karnabe was being held Sunday pending arraignment in Queens Criminal Court on charges including drunken driving, vehicular assault, reckless endangerment, endangering the welfare of a child and leaving the scene of an accident. If convicted, Karnabe, 54, could face up to seven years in prison.

A telephone message left at her home Sunday was not immediately returned.

Karnabe told police she started drinking at 2 p.m. Saturday and downed a bottle of vodka, prosecutors said. She admitted that as she drove home from her son’s house she hit something on Yellowstone Boulevard and heard people screaming and that when she got home at 3 p.m. she saw damage to her car, they said.

Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown called drinking and driving “a deadly combination” that can turn a car into “a lethal weapon.”

AP-ES-08-05-07 1858EDT

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