Besides photos of the Romanian-born beauty, plus candles and a gold urn holding her ashes, there is one blue leather shoe Buta wore that night and the tattered tote she carried. Oprea has set up a shrine to her only child - a National Honor Society student who sang, danced and starred in four musicals at Hillside HS in New Jersey. Officials told Oprea the driver claimed he never saw Buta and “we have no proof” he was aware of the impact. The Manhattan DA’s Office told Oprea seven months ago that they would not charge the driver with a crime. 08 level of impairment, and was talking on her cellphone.īut her mom’s lawyer, Joe Tacopina, says records show no calls at the time. Police said Buta had a blood-alcohol level of. Robinson turned right at an unknown speed, and his truck plowed into Buta. The intersection was dark and had a dip in the asphalt off the curb. The light at West 14th and Broadway turned green, and she stepped into the crosswalk. It was a rainy Tuesday, and she walked toward the subway. Schreiber acting studio, left her job as a waitress at Bar 6 at 1:26 a.m. “How do they explain that someone can kill a young girl and get away with it?”īuta, who studied and performed at T. “They took his word and left me with nothing,” the distraught mom said. The news stunned Buta’s mother, Cristina Oprea. On March 18 - 10 months after her death - police slapped Robinson with two summonses, for “failure to yield to a pedestrian in a crosswalk,” and “failure to exercise due care.”īut in court last week, he was found not guilty of both. Cops tracked him down eight days later after a bank security video captured the truck on tape.

Harry Robinson, 64, a $105,000-a-year highway repairman for the Department of Transportation, drove the city-owned, 10-wheel Mack dump truck that ran over and crushed Roxana Sorina Buta, 21 - then kept going.ĭespite heavy press coverage, Robinson did not turn himself in. (Ī year after a horrific hit-and-run killed an aspiring actress walking near Union Square, the city employee behind the wheel has gotten off scot-free, The Post has learned. FURY: Kin of Roxana Sorina Buta (above) are enraged that dump-truck driver Harry Robinson (inset) got off scot-free in her mowdown death in Union Square.

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