The family of the 3-year-old Brooklyn girl killed in a car crash on Saturday are struggling to cope, one member said.
“There are a bunch of guys upstairs and they are very angry,” the toddler’s aunt told The Post outside the family’s Brooklyn apartment. “They’re not taking it well. It is a very bad situation.”
Young Sophia Aguirre was riding in a the family’s Chevrolet Malibu on Bruckner Boulevard in the Bronx with her mother and two grandparents at 10 a.m. Saturday.
Aguirre’s 52-year-old grandmother was driving and hit the brakes to avoid a raised metal sewer cap in the street, causing a garbage truck to rear-end their car, police said. The car was sent careening into a metal pole, and the ensuing crash killed the toddler, who was sitting in the back seat, officials said.
Neighbors living on Bruckner Boulevard said the stretch where the crash happened has long been poorly maintained, but a Department of Transportation spokesman said the street was milled last week and will be repaved soon.
The garbage truck driver, who works for private hauler Avid Waste Systems, remained at the scene while police investigated. There were no arrests, officials said.