Cabbies, Women Like You For Your Minds, Not Your Driving Prowess

The cab driver who lost control of his vehicle, killing a young Staten Island woman he had been transporting, allegedly was “flirting” with the girls by speeding like a maniac:

A reckless cabby with only a month’s experience was “flirting” with one of his pretty passengers and trying to impress her moments before his speeding taxi spun out of control — leading to the horrific crash that killed her friend, one of the girls’ seething fathers told The Post yesterday.

“People like this should not be behind the wheel of a car,” said John Sallustio, whose two daughters were seriously hurt in the nightmare smash-up on the West Side Highway early Sunday morning. “They have to be taken off the road.

“In fact, people like this should not be in regular society,” Sallustio added. “These girls were terrorized by this man, there’s no doubt about it.”

Sallustio said his daughter, Anna, 16, told him that driver Hassan Afzal had been eyeing her older sister, Enza, when he stepped on the gas just after 2 a.m. during their cab ride with two friends through Manhattan’s Meatpacking District.

Enza, 21, is “a beautiful girl with blond hair and blue eyes,” Sallustio said. “He was kind of flirting with her, trying to scare them.

“Something was not right with him,” Sallustio quoted Anna as saying about Afzal, 21.

Afzal, a Pakistani immigrant who got his hack license May 5, was driving the two sisters and their friend, Danielle Ricco and Amy Vallarelli in the Ford Crown Victoria south along the West Side Highway when he allegedly began speeding.