A traffic-court judge will decide whether a hit-and-run truck driver will finally lose his license years after he killed a Brooklyn artist, the victim's family told The Post.
Relatives of victim Mathieu Lefevre discovered late last year that a judge threw out two traffic tickets against the driver who killed their son in 2011 — and a routine hearing on whether the man should keep his license was never held.
The driver, Leonardo Degianni, was not charged criminally with leaving the scene after he told police that he did not realize he had hit someone.
He was ticketed for minor infractions, including failing to signal.
A white bike commemorates Lefevre's death at the scene where he was hit.Photo: Stephen Yang
But in every traffic fatality, the Department of Motor Vehicles, which manages traffic court, is supposed to hold a special hearing to decide whether the driver should stay on the road. That never happened.
Lefevre's relatives, who are suing Degianni, are members of the advocacy group Families for Safe Streets, which went to bat for them when it was revealed that the DMV had similarly thrown out tickets against a motorist who killed a 3-year-old Queens girl.
The DMV then set a date for a hearing on Lefevre's case to decide whether Degianni should stay on the road.
Video showing the driver running over the 30-year-old cyclist in Williamsburg and then leaving the scene will be shown for the first time publicly at the Jan. 27 hearing.
"It's been three years; it's very difficult," said Lefevre's mother, Erika, who will fly from western Canada to New York for the hearing. "You're doing everything you can, waiting for justice to happen."
Lawyer Steve Vaccaro said the hearing is very important for Mathieu's parents.
"It's symbolic, but they also feel a very direct connection to other parents," he said.
"They feel if a driver is shown to be reckless, that he should be taken off the streets for at least some period of time to understand the gravity of what he's doing and the importance of taking great care."
He added that the justice process is so flawed that NYPD investigators don't always come to the traffic hearings — and he hopes the police who handled the case will testify.
The DMV did not comment on the cases.
Mathieu Lefevre Crash–CAUTION GRAPHIC CONTENT from Vaccaro and White on Vimeo.
This surveillance video from a warehouse on Morgan Avenue shows, at time stamp at 6:50, that the truck driver who killed Mathieu Lefevre did not signal his turn.
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