Mia Pollidore, 24, of Freeport, was fatally struck by drunken driver Tyshaun Johashen while walking to a deli

Amirah Pollidore still has the clothes her daughter, Mia Pollidore, wore the night a drunken driver killed her by smashing his Nissan sedan into her at 60 mph as she walked across Babylon Turnpike in Freeport to get to the deli.

It happened March 1, 2023. She kept them — leggings, T-shirt, down coat with a fur collar — because she does not know what to do. "I don’t want to discard them as if they’re garbage," she said.

Mia Pollidore, 24, was a makeup artist who lived in Freeport. She attended SUNY Adirondack in Queensbury and Brooklyn Collaborative Studies high school, where she'd sometimes hold a friend’s hand so the other kids wouldn’t bully him when they walked to class.

As Mia grew into adulthood, mother and daughter sometimes unwound by watching sitcoms and laughing together. Mia watched "Law and Order" by herself. "All night I’d hear that gavel," the famous dun-dun from the show’s intro, Amirah Pollidore said.

For five months after the crash, Amirah Pollidore sat "staring at the TV, even though it’s not on, looking at my phone. I couldn’t watch the shows that she and I used to."

The gavel sound now makes Amirah Pollidore sick, she said.

Nassau County prosecutors said that Tyshaun Johashen, 32, who pled guilty to aggravated vehicular homicide and other felonies, was driving at twice the 30-mph speed limit, with a blood-alcohol level at least three times the legal level. His license was suspended at the time because of a pending DWI charge in Queens.

At sentencing in 2023, Pollidore said, Johashen’s mother apologized to her. "She said that her son did something wrong and that she told her son he has to pay for what he did." Pollidore said she appreciated the gesture, but added: "What he did was very selfish, it was irresponsible."

Johashen will serve prison time at least until 2029, according to state records.

This March 1, the day she called Mia’s "two-year angel-versary," Pollidore visited his Facebook page and wrote, "I hate you."

Pollidore said she stopped attending group therapy sessions because they were too painful. Her family is not as close anymore, she said. "You think it will bring people closer, but it’s not like that at all."

She sees it in her older son, Troy. "I see the dullness of his eyes. He used to walk around — I used to call him, ‘Can you slow down? — and now he moves very slow. No more dashing downstairs or dashing up."

Sometimes Pollidore looks at pictures of her two children when they were young. "In all of her pictures as a young girl, she’s looking up to her big brother. He’s holding her, almost squeezing her."