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Queens Man Charged In Connection With Fatal Hit-And-Run

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) -- A Queens man has been arrested and charged in connection with a fatal hit-and-run crash in Queens over the weekend.

Betty Jean Dibiasio, 21, was fatally struck by a car on Ditmars Boulevard at 19th Street just before 12:30 a.m. Saturday.

Dibiasio, of Astoria, suffered severe head trauma and was pronounced dead at Elmhurst Hospital.

According to authorities, 24-year-old Nicholas Colleran has been charged with leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death, driving without a license and related offenses.

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