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A Long Island man busted in the Bronx Tuesday for driving drunk with a toddler in the car was likely the first person arrested in the city under Leandra’s Law, police said.

Thomas Mager, 50, was pulled over on the Throgs Neck Expressway about 12:45 p.m. while cruising at 75 mph in a 50-mph zone, police sources said.

Mager, whose 3-year-old daughter was in the backseat of his Chevrolet Silverado, reeked of alcohol and flunked a field-sobriety test, sources said.

“He was intoxicated,” a police source said.

Mager, of Riverhead, L.I., was charged with operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated and other crimes. Read more..

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Melody Sanchez tries to comfort her daughter Kayla, 11, at New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell. Kayla lost her best friend, Leandra Rosado, also 11, in upper West Side crash

As her little angel lay upstairs in a blue hospital gown, battered, bruised and bloodied from the same drunken driving accident that took another girl’s life, Melody Sanchez seethed.

“I’m just shocked at what she did,” Sanchez said of the drunken Bronx mom who cops said got behind the wheel with seven girls in her car.

“How dare you!” she raged into the cold, windless night.

“This is my daughter’s life!”

The daughter, Kayla Fernandez, 11, recalls how utterly reckless Carmen Huertas was as she took off from a party in Chelsea with the girls in tow, headed for a slumber party at her house in The Bronx. Read more..

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