Two pedestrians were killed in separate accidents on Staten Island's Hylan Boulevard Monday night. NY1's Michael Herzenberg filed the following report.
Shannon Lies had just finished her waitressing shift at a Staten Island diner when tragedy struck.
"No words to describe the devastation of ours and her family and her kids," said Chris Egenci, manager of Mike's Place.
The 31-year-old was crossing Hylan Boulevard when she was struck by a sedan.
Lies, the mother of two daughters, ages four and five, was six months pregnant, expecting a boy.
Egenci says the popular and hard-working waitress was just trying to catch a bus home.
"I let her go a little early," he said. "She wanted to be with her kids at home. She has two little beautiful girls."
Employees ran outside to do what they could, but Lies and her unborn child didn't make it.
Police say a 54-year-old woman ran over Lies after 11 p.m. Monday near the Arden Avenue intersection.
"I spoke to the driver, actually, and the driver said that she didn't see the person, she didn't see the girl crossing the street," Egenci said.
The Tri-State Safety Campaign says Hylan Boulevard is one of Staten Island's most dangerous roadways. Speed limits have been reduced and medians installed.
Lies' death, though, was the second on the boulevard in four hours.
Police ticketed drivers Tuesday near Bay Street, where that first death occurred at 7:30 p.m. Monday.
Investigatorssay 61-year-old Steven Teretsky was walking across Bay Street outside the crosswalk when a car hit him.
Friends say Teretsky lived on the block and had two grown children.
"Just a guy that was trying to make it for his family and all like that," said one friend of Teretsky. "Spend all his money for his kids to go to school and what not. That was his life. Now, it's gone."
At both scenes, people say drivers generally go too fast, but they were not referring to either crash.