Mere minutes before being mowed down by a dozing driver as she stood on a Queens sidewalk, college student Ava Conklin spent her final moments snapping a light-hearted selfie and sending it to her beloved family. Conklin had just wrapped up her shift as a hostess at the upscale Rockaway Hotel and was waiting at a bus stop to go picnicking with her kid sister in Central Park when she sent the selfie at 2:14 p.m. ET Saturday. “How does your whole life change in four minutes?” her heartbroken stepmother, Jennifer Duffy, asked Sunday. At 2:17 p.m. ET, the 29-year-old driver of 2021 Hyundai Venueva...
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