NY Man Tyrone Absolam ID’d As DUI Driver In Saturday Queens Double-Fatal Crash Involving Children

QUEENS, NY. (THECOUNT) — Tyrone Absolam, of Rosedale, New York, has been identified as the suspected DUI driver in a Saturday vehicle crash that left a mother and her young daughter dead in Queens.

Absolam, 42, is facing charges of manslaughter, vehicular manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, assault and driving while intoxicated, following a two-vehicle collision that left 31-year-old Diana Granobles and her 10-year-old daughter, Isabella, dead on Saturday night.

According to reports, Granobles and her daughter, of Copiague, were traveling in a Chevy Cruz on Rockaway Boulevard near Guy R Brewer Boulevard in Queens, when Absolam’s Nissan Altima came into violent contact with the Chevy around 9 p.m. Saturday.

The mother and daughter were pronounced dead at Jamaica Hospital.

Nissan passengers, a 38-year-old woman, a 12-year-old boy and a 16-year-old girl, were transported to area hospitals in serious condition.

Absolam was transported in serious unknown condition.

The cause of the crash remains under investigation.

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