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‘Always full of life,’ friend mourns 30-year-old woman killed in Gowanus crash
Updated Mar 16, 2021;
Posted Mar 13, 2021
Karen Diaz, 30, of Greenridge, died on March 10, 2021 after a car crash on the Gowanus Parkway. (Staten Island Advance)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. A friend of the 30-year-old woman who tragically lost her life in a car crash on the Gowanus Expressway this week described her as “always full of life” and “such a beautiful soul.”
Emergency medical crews responded at about 11:20 p.m. to 911 calls reporting a crash in the Staten-Island bound lanes of the Gowanus Expressway near the 92nd Street exit, according to a statement by the NYPD.