Driver gets prison for fatal Gowanus crash
A 32-year-old drunk driver will spend two to six years in prison for causing a collision that killed a 30-year-old woman.
Mark Dookhan pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter Dec. 13 and was sentenced Jan. 24.
Dookhan was driving his BMW on the Gowanus Expressway on March 10, 2021 when he struck the rear of a tractor trailer that was stopped in traffic near the Verrazzano Bridge. Karen Diaz, his 30-year-old passenger, died at the scene.