A license plate that fell off a car during a hit-and-run collision led police to the driver of Tesla that struck and killed well-known Brooklyn wine steward Alexandra Huggins as she was riding her bike in East Williamsburg, officials said Wednesday.
“She was an amazing person,” the victim’s heartbroken mother, June Huggins, told the Daily News.
”She had a lot of amazing friends. She loved her life in New York and had no plans to leave. She was way too young to die. She was extraordinary, beautiful and bright and just so happy with life.”
Six weeks after the 32-year-old Huggins was hit on Sept. 27, police said they tracked down and arrested Luis Machado by using the fallen plate and video surveillance to tie him to the crash. Machado, 33, was charged with leaving the scene of an accide

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