Amanda Malloy, 29, of Melville, was killed in the 7:25 p.m. accident on New York Avenue, police said.
The other jogger, Vincent Saunders, 32, of Huntington, was taken to Huntington Hospital. A prosecutor said he was critically injured and not expected to survive.
The driver, Shea Rosen, 19, of Wheatley Road, Brookville, was arrested and charged with misdemeanor driving while ability impaired by drugs, police said.
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Those charges likely
will be upgraded, the prosecutor said.
Rosen pleaded not guilty at his
arraignment at First District Court in Central Islip, where he was ordered held
on $500,000 bail, or $1 million bond.
Rosen was driving home from nearby
Prime Restaurant, 117 New York Ave., when he came upon the joggers, authorities
said.
"I didn't see her," the driver told police, according to the
prosecutor, Avemaria Thompson. "She was running in the road."
Police
reported the driver to be unsteady, with glassy eyes and a smell of marijuana on
his breath, according to the prosecutor.
Thompson said that, when asked
to take a breath analyzer test, Rosen told police: "I'm not taking anything. No
way. I'm not taking that."
Three pills were found in the driver's sock,
the prosecutor said.
More than 12 hours after the fatal accident, Rosen's
brown 2000 Dodge Durango sport utility vehicle remained stopped in the
southbound lane of New York Avenue not far from Madison Street and Heckscher
Park.
A running shoe lay in the street near the open rear hatch. The hood
was dented.
The scene remained cordoned off with yellow police tape
Friday morning.
A passerby said Malloy was a fourth-grade teacher at John F. Kennedy Elementary School in Deer Park, where his son is in her
class.
"She's a very avid biker. She rides her bicycle to school," Tony
Etersqua said.
Malloy also ran marathons and had a black belt in karate,
he said.
"She's a very well-spoken person, well liked," Etersqua
said.
The school held parent-teacher conferences last week and Etersqua
said Malloy had a positive and generous spirit.
"She was looked upon as a
teacher who did good. She always had a smile on her face," he said. "This girl
had her whole life ahead of her."
The school has grief counselors on hand
this morning, Etersqua said.
"We were really blessed to have her as our
son's teacher," he said.
