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Lawyer: Driver reaching for phone when she hit boy

Joseph Marino in a photo from his Facebook

Photo credit: Handout | Joseph Marino in a photo from his Facebook page.

The woman who fatally struck a teenager in Hampton Bays was answering a cell phone when she hit him with her sport utility vehicle, according to the attorney who represented Caroline Goss at her arraignment on drunken driving charges.

Goss, 34, of Mattituck, was driving with her 6-year-old child Wednesday evening north on Ponquogue Avenue as she approached Joseph Marino from behind, said attorney...

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