Parkway crash victim's father

He couldn ' t bring himself to say goodbye.

The single father of the 11 - life - elderly miss killed consequence Sunday ' s outlandish drunk - driving crash on the Henry Hudson Parkway at fundamental refused to distinguish his daughter ' s stricken body, accordingly gathered the strength to step into her stinging hospital room.

" Teenybopper looked double chick was sleeping, " oral Lenny Rosado, recalling how he gave his daughter, Leandra, one last snog on the forehead.

" I told her I ' ll miss her, " he verbal, blinking back wailing. " I just asked God, ' Why? Out of all [those] girls, why mine? ' "

Leandra Rosado, a vivacious sixth - grader at the Greenwich Village Middle School, was one of seven girls crammed into Carmen Huertas ' car as the drunken woman left a party to begin her drive north to the Bronx.

" Nobody from there saw she was drinking? " Rosado asked in anger. " There were four seat belts and all those kids? There was no common sense last night. "

Rosado, a security guard, said he doted on Leandra, who went by the nickname Lily and loved music, art and watching rented movies.

" My daughter ' s my best friend, " said Rosado. " She ' s my partner in crime, she was my life, my joy. "

" She was Daddy ' s little girl, " he said.

Leandra and the other girls piled into Huertas ' 1998 Mercury Sable bound for a slumber party at the driver ' s Bronx house.

" [Huertas] told all the girls to raise your hand if you thought something was going to happen, " Lisa Vazquez said her daughter Amanda, 14, told her.

Amanda Vazquez, a freshman at George Washington High School, suffered only bruises and whiplash in the crash. The other girls suffered a variety of cuts and broken bones, including one teen who broke both legs.