A mother of a 9-year-old girl died early Tuesday when she crashed into the back of an idling 18-wheeler on a Queens highway and her car exploded into flames, officials said.
Evelissa Santos Paulino, 33, was dead inside the charred wreck of her Honda Accord by the time firefighters put out the blaze on the Clearview Expressway near the Hillside Ave. exit in Queens Village about 3 a.m., cops said.