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Yesterday, the families of two young children who were crushed to death by an unattended, idling van in Chinatown gathered with other New Yorkers to demand the Manhattan DA's office to prosecute the incident. The NYPD called the January 22 incident an "accident" and did not issue the driver for a neighborhood restaurant a ticket or take his license. The children had been walking on the sidewalk with their pre-school class.

Just before noon, a rally is being held outside the Manhattan DA's office, demanding for an investigation into the deaths of four-year-old Hayley Ng and three-year-old Diego Martinez. The two pre-schoolers were killed when an unoccupied van, left idling on East Broadway in Chinatown, jumped a curb and crash into them as their class was coming back from a field trip. The incident was deemed an accident, but the children's families are upset that the driver wasn't even issued a ticket and still has his license. Hayley's aunt told Streetsblog "We're hoping for the DA to set a precedent and prosecute this person or convene a grand jury." (WCBS 2 interviewed Hayley's mother who said, "No, I'm not all right! I'll never be all right! She's gone!") The rally is at One Hogan Place.