STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Rossville resident Lou Alfano is turning personal tragedy into a mission to save lives through an innovative take on driver education.

Alfano’s daughter Madison, 18, was a 2023 graduate of Tottenville High School and a freshman at Monmouth University majoring in journalism and minoring in photography.

On Friday, Jan. 12, 2024, Madison was heading home from school when she was involved in a multi-vehicle collision on the Garden State Parkway near Exit 127 — the exit drivers typically take to travel over the Outerbridge Crossing into Staten Island.

Transferred to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, she underwent several surgeries but succumbed to her injuries early the next morning.

Within months of Madison’s death, Alfano and his wife, Michelle, managed to e

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