Funeral services for Andrew Burrous, a 9-year-old boy killed while riding his bicycle last week, were attended by hundreds of mourners at Our Lady of Victory Church in Floral Park on Monday.
Burial at St. Charles Cemetery in Farmingdale followed the service on Monday afternoon.
The boy was fatally injured early Thursday evening when he was struck while riding his bicycle by a car driven by a New Hyde Park teenager learning to drive on Martha Terrace near the intersection of Plainfield Avenue in Floral Park, according to the Nassau County Police.
Police said the boy’s mother, Kathy Burrous, 49, was struck by the car before it struck her son.
The accident occurred at 6:22 p.m. on Thursday. Units of the Floral Park Police Department immediately responded to the scene, according to Floral Park Police Commissioner Stephen McAllister, who said the police administered CPR to Burrous. The boy was transported by the Floral Park Police Department to North Shore LIJ Hospital, where he was pronounced dead by a staff physician at 6:54 p.m.
Nassau County Police also responded to the scene.
His mother also was transported to the hospital, where she was treated and released.
On Friday afternoon, two floral arrangements were planted in the grass near the scene of the accident.
Police said the driver of the car was a 16-year-old NewHyde Park girl with a learner’s permit who was practicing driving in the neighborhood with her mother in the 2004 Nissan SUV. She was driving north on Plainfield Avenue and made a wide right turn onto Martha Terrace, side-swiping the boy’s mother before striking the cyclist.
“She took it too wide and mounted the sidewalk on the north side of the block, striking his mother and him,” McAllister said.
No criminal charges have been made in the case.
“There’s no criminality here. It’s a tragedy for everyone,” McAllister said.
The fatal accident is the fourth incident involving youngsters from the area in the past five years.
Last July, Floral Park teenagers Michael Mulhall and Jamie and Paige Malone were killed in a crash on the Meadowbrook Parkway.
In July 2009, three Floral Park children, Emma, Kate and Alyson Hance, ages five to eight, were killed along with five other people in an auto accident on the Taconic Parkway.
In June 2006, four Elmont teenagers were killed in a crash on Plainview Av enue in Floral Park.
