She was in a rush for pizza.
Jurors in the retrial of hellion-on-wheels Lynette Caban heard her police confession yesterday. In it, she explains that she’d thrown her Jeep Cherokee into reverse — fatally striking a sweet, 82-year-old grandmother — so her passengers could hop out for a few quick slices.
“We decided to get something to eat before going to the airport,” Caban told cops after the 2003 tragedy, which left Francesca Maytin dying in the street in front of her apartment complex in Harlem.
Caban is being retried for criminally negligent homicide. Prosecutors say she plowed into a crosswalk in reverse and against a red light going at least 15 mph, despite having a suspended license for backing into a crosswalk three months earlier.
Caban’s broken rear passenger window was also covered in black plastic, obscuring her view.
She’d been convicted of the homicide charge six years ago. But errors by a now-retired Manhattan judge resulted in an appeals court’s ruling that the case be retried.