A 5-year-old girl and her mother were run over on a public street in Yonkers, New York this week, by drunk driver, David Poncurak, 43. Police who were nearby rushed to lift the 2,600 pound car off the mother and her little girl, after the vehicle knocked them into a barbershop and then ran over them.

The incident created serious injuries. The little girl sustained a fractured skull and her mother a broken leg. The little girl will have long-term damage from that terrible neurological event. Both were transported to the hospital and are listed in stable condition. Poncurak has been arrested for drunk driving and vehicular assault.

Do you see how you can be minding your own business then the unethical choices of another damage you, because some in society refuse to follow the law. Poncurak should do at least 20-years in prison, as he could have killed the victims. The government can't be soft on crime. These types of cases deserve verdicts that make an example of flagrant offenders, to deter future misconduct.

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After car smashes into shop, police and bystanders save baby trapped underneath: ‘Nothing short of heroic’

Yesterday at 5:31 a.m. EDT - Wading through shards of glass and mangled chairs on Friday morning — just moments after a dark blue sedan smashed through the middle of a barbershop in New York — a police officer made a shocking discovery: An infant was pinned underneath the car.

“Grab the baby!” Rocco Fusco, an officer with the Yonkers Police Department, can be heard shouting in body-camera footage as he and at least three bystanders gripped the base of the roughly 2,600-pound Hyundai Elantra and lifted. Officer Paul Samoyedny, who first spotted the infant, reached for the child and yelled, “I got it! I got the baby.”

Moments before the chaotic scene, police say an intoxicated driver barreled into a 36-year-old woman holding her 8-month old daughter as they crossed the street. In the collision, the two ended up on the hood as the car drove through the front of Dmitriy Barber Shop, surveillance video shows.
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Police identified the driver as David Poncurak, 43, and on Friday they arrested and charged him with vehicular assault and drunken driving. Poncurak did not have a license, police said in a news release. Inmate records show Poncurak remains in Yonkers City Jail. His next court date is Aug. 6. It is unclear who is representing him...

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