A Queens bodega owner who cheated death when an out-of-control stretch limo from a funeral possession slammed into her shop has filed suit, blaming three different drivers for the mishap.
“I just remember all of a sudden, BOOM! A very big noise, and after that, I fell down,” Sarabjit Kaur, 34, who owns the Mega Mini Market at 144th Street and Guy Brewer Boulevard, told The Post.
On March 10, Kaur was sweeping her store’s stairs when a minivan clipped a Ford Expedition that, in turn, struck the funeral limo and sent it flying into her Springfield Gardens shop.
Kaur was thrown from the stairs onto the limo’s hood and landed against the front wheel, causing “serious bodily injury to her shoulders, head, neck, right arm and feet,” said her lawyer, Adam Shapiro, who filed the negligence lawsuit in Queens Supreme Court last week.
Kaur is suing the drivers and owners of the minivan, Ford Exhibition and limo.
“I have three small children . . . I can’t even change their diaper, nothing,” Kaur said, adding she’s been bedridden and unable to continue working her regular six days a week at her store.
The motorcade had been headed to Pinelawn cemetery on Long Island to bury 94-year-old Delores Godfrey. Several of the relatives of the departed were among the 16 people injured in the crash.
“Our driver did nothing wrong,” said a spokesman for Utopia Leasing Inc., which owns the Ford. Limo owner Owen Transportation Excellence declined to comment, as did the minivan driver, Saketav McGhee.