Grieving relative of mom, son killed in NYC July 4th crash tells suspected drunk driver own up to what you did

A grieving man whose mother and brother were among the three July Fourth partygoers killed in a horrific Lower East Side crash wants the suspected drunken driver to fess up.“Own up to what you did,” said Diamond Pinkney, 29, to self-proclaimed “addict” Daniel Christopher Hyden, who is accused of drunkenly plowing down 11 people celebrating Independence Day at Corlears Hook Park Thursday night.“You took something very important to me, and I don’t know how long it’s going to take for me to come back from (this),” Pinkney told The Post in an interview Friday.The devastating crash unfolded a block away from the Water Street home Pinkney shared with his mother Lucille Pinkney, 59, and brother Herman Pinkney, 38.Both Lucille and Herman were killed, along with third as-yet-unidentified woman, when police said Hyden, 44, barreled a 5,000-pound Ford F-150 through the Water Street and Jackson Street intersection, over the sidewalk and into the park.Diamond Pinkney was home when the crash unfolded.“We heard the loud bang,” he said.“We thought it was a firework.

But it wasn’t.” The startling noise gave way to the sound of a new horror: friends yelling the names of Pinkney’s mom and brother.“They were yelling their names.Then yelling my name,” he said.“My family was very well known here.

Everybody knows us.” Pinkney’s brother and mother suffered severe body trauma in the crash and were declared dead at Bellevue Hospital, police sources said.The unidentified woman, who suffered severe head trauma, likewise was declared dead at the hospital.Eight other pedestrians were injured in the crash, including an 11-year-old boy, police and sources said.Shock rippled through the tight-knit Lower East Side community near the park in the aftermath of the crash – with neighbors standing around the crime scene tape in utter disbelief.One neighbor — Rafael Irizarry, 59 — came on a scooter, and just stood in the rain across from the scene for a w...