A Long Island woman who was high on crack cocaine and arguing with her passenger plead guilty today for slamming her car into a construction site seriously injuring two of the workers.
Yolanda Silvera, 29 was driving without a license in a 2002 Nissan at 60 miles an hour when she plowed through the barriers leading up to the construction zone near the intersection of Rockaway Blvd & 150th Street in Springfield Gardens in Aug 2009.
Silvera, of Malverne, and her passenger David Krugar, 40 crashed into Michael Hudson and Robert Keller with so much force it sent one of the men flying over the car’s hood. When police arrived at the scene, they observed the front end of the car smashed, the windows blown out and bloodstains on the trunk and rear passenger door, according to court papers.
The driver admitted to officers that she had smoked crack cocaine prior to the accident.
Hudson and Keller both suffered serious injuries to the lower half of their bodies. Hudson suffered facial trauma and also had his lower left leg amputated.
Krugar of Bellmore plead guilty to drug possession last year.
Silvera faces nine years in prison.