Drunken Driver Hits Car And 17-Year-Old Is Killed

A 17-year-old girl was killed on the Upper East Side when a drunken driver hit the car in which she was a passenger, police said.

Officials said a 21-year-old man was driving a Honda Civic south on Park Avenue yesterday morning with Julie Tsang, 17, as his passenger. As they began to make a left turn onto 65th Street at 3:50 a.m., an intoxicated 22-year-old who was driving a Dodge Dakota pickup truck north on Park Avenue collided with the Honda's passenger side.

Police said a taxi that was driving behind the truck crashed into the truck's rear bumper, but the driver was unharmed.

Tsang was pronounced dead at the scene, officials said, and the Honda's driver was taken to NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in critical but stable condition. The truck driver failed a Breathalyzer test, but has yet to be arrested or charged, police said.

Tsang, who graduated from Millennium High School this spring, would have been a freshman at Hunter College in the fall.

Also on Park Avenue yesterday, a driver of a Mitsubishi convertible swerved to avoid hitting a bicyclist and collided with a concrete median. His car overturned and he suffered minor face injuries, police said. The bicyclist was uninjured.