Parade Will Remember Victims of Chinatown Van Crash

The Better Chinatown Society says that next Sunday's Lunar New Year Parade will honor the two children who were killed when an unoccupied van struck them last week. The group's president Steve Lin told Newsday that parade organizers were meeting to discuss how to recognize the kids, 4-year-old Hayley Ng and 3-year-old Diego Martinez. Little Hayley and Diego were buried yesterday; the Daily News reports that Diego's father Francisco Martinez, "who sobbed and clutched another one of his son's toys, a stuffed blue monkey," is an EMT assigned to Chinatown—he was "off duty the day of the accident, but might have responded to the accident if he'd been on duty." Yesterday, Diego's mother said the day care program didn't contact her about the accident, and mourned how her son died in the hospital alone.