A school crossing guard responsible for a busy Harlem intersection never showed up for work yesterday morning — and a 6-year-old boy she should have been helping was fatally struck by a big rig, police sources said.
Flavia Roman, 55, was supposed to begin her shift near PS 155 at 7:30 a.m. but left the post unmanned. At 7:54 a.m., little Amar Diarrassouba was run over by the back tire of the tractor-trailer at First Avenue and East 117th Street, the sources said.
Roman, who lives a half-block away on East 117th Street, then showed up at the scene claiming she had run home for a bathroom break.
Byron Smith
MARKED ABSENT: School crossing guard Flavia Roman, who was allegedly away from her post at a Harlem intersection when tragedy struck, leaves a station house yesterday after being questioned by cops.
A Post photo taken at 8:20 a.m. showed her in uniform talking to investigators.
She later told authorities, including the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, that she abandoned her post for an "emergency" without getting permission.
Roman was slapped with a 30-day unpaid suspension for being AWOL — and the DA is still considering criminal charges, a law-enforcement source said.
Sources said Roman had had a clean employment record since she joined the NYPD in 2003 — although parents said she was often distracted.
"I would never see her [working]. Whenever someone's crossing, she's talking to other people," griped Oscar Paz, 28, whose daughter Jateiri, 6, attends PS 155.
"She's a person who didn't do her job well," he said. "Instead of walking children across the road, she's distracted and talking to people."
Jateiri added, "She was always talking on the telephone."
Amar was crossing First Avenue in the crosswalk with his 9-year-old brother, Youssouf, just as the tractor-trailer made a right turn from East 117th Street onto the avenue.
The trucker, Robert Carroll, 42, of Woodbury, NJ, had a green light and told cops he didn't see the boy, who had a walk signal and the right of way.
Carroll continued north on First Avenue until witnesses chased him down near East 119th Street to alert him about what had happened.
Amar was lying in a puddle of blood, his backpack in the street. A bicyclist had struggled in vain to help the boy.
"I heard something like a pop. I heard what sounded like something getting hit," said Samar Preet, 23, who works at a nearby Shell gas station.
"I looked outside and someone who was riding a bike on First Avenue stopped and carried the boy to the sidewalk.
"The boy was bleeding from the head, and he tried to stop the blood. He just picked him up off the street and brought him to the sidewalk," Preet said. "The guy on the bike did everything he could to save the kid."
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