Friends, family urge local businesswoman to keep fighting after disturbing crash
Updated Dec 23, 2020;
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. Friends and family gathered in Historic Richmondtown Tuesday night to urge the victim of a horrific car crash to continue fighting.
A Facebook stream of the candlelight vigil allowed Diana Petrone to be part of the ceremony from her hospital bed at Staten Island University Hospital in Ocean Breeze, where she’s been since the crash occurred Dec. 12 in New Springville.
Billy Contreras, a friend of Petrone’s and president of the Bikers Against Child Abuse (BACA) organization to which she belongs, said about 10 minutes before the vigil started that they received good news Petrone may have had movement below her neck for the first time since entering the hospital.
Beloved S.I. businesswoman paralyzed in crash; her driver slammed into tree on purpose, cops say
Updated Dec 23, 2020;
Posted Dec 22, 2020
Diana Petrone is shown inside Not Just Bagels in Dongan Hills in this file photo. (Staten Island Advance/Jan Somma-Hammel)Staff-Shot
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. A beloved local businesswoman has been paralyzed after a disturbing crash where the driver of the car she was riding in intentionally slammed the vehicle into a tree, authorities allege.
Robert Mustari, 48, of Slater Boulevard in Midland Beach, was driving with Diana Petrone in the passenger seat on Dec. 12 around 1 a.m. in New Springville when the incident occurred, according to a criminal complaint.