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Crash kills SI nursing student

A 21-year-old Staten Island nursing student was killed early yesterday when she crashed her car into a utility pole while heading to the home of the grandmother she took care of, cops and relatives said.

Christina Battimelli drove her Hyundai Elantra into the pole on Carolina Place near College Avenue at 2:25 a.m., police said.

Her devastated uncle, George Picon, 53, said she had been visiting a friend and was alone in the vehicle.

“She was a nursing student, an aspiring young girl who lived in Staten Island her whole life,” said Picon, comforting Battimelli’s 83-year-old grandmother.

Police last night were investigating the cause of the one-car accident.

Students at St. Paul’s School of Nursing expressed their grief on Facebook.