Nupur Baten, Young Brooklyn Mom, Killed By Husband Backing Out of Driveway

Photo via Nupur Baten/Facebook

Twenty-six-year-old East Flatbush mom Nupur Baten, originally from Bangladesh, was killed in a tragic car crash in her own driveway on Saturday morning, according to the NYPD.

Police said they found Baten around 9:40 a.m. “in a semi-conscious state laying on the ground in the driveway with trauma to her body.”

She was pronounced dead less than an hour later at Kings County Hospital in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens.

An initial police investigation found that Baten was killed by a 2015 Toyota Rav4 that was backing out of the driveway at 371 East 32nd Street.

“The operator remained on scene and there are no arrests at this time,” the NYPD said in a statement. However, the investigation is ongoing.

Baten’s relatives told the New York Daily News that the young woman’s husband, Sakwat Hossain Baten, 31, was behind the wheel of the Rav4, and that he had lost control of the car while Baten was helping guide him out of the driveway — fatally striking her and pinning her against the apartment building next door. Sakwat had only gotten his license three months ago, an uncle said.

Family members called Baten a “loving” mother and an “excellent girl.”

“She was always helping others. She was always there for people,” Baten‘s 16-year-old cousin, Abedin Samia, told the Daily News. “Driving family members to the doctor, translating for them.”

The 26-year-old reportedly leaves behind two kids: Sadiqah, 4, and Samia, 10 months.

“I worry about the kids,” her uncle told the Daily News. “They’ve lost their mother. They won’t have their mother.”

Last month, Baten posted photos to Facebook of 4-year-old Sadika’s first day at P.S. 361, a pre-K school located a few blocks from the family’s home in East Flatbush.

In a Facebook status posted a week before her death, she wrote: “Life has many ways of testing of a person’s will, wither by having nothing at all or by having everything all at once.”

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