The hit-and-run minivan driver who allegedly plowed into a married couple from Germany – killing and nearly decapitating a woman and seriously wounding her husband – has been charged in the terrifying Midtown crash, cops said Thursday.

Mohammed Abouzaid, 40, of The Bronx, was charged with failure to yield to a pedestrian and leaving the scene of an accident without reporting, and was awaiting arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court.

“I did not hit anybody,” Abouzaid, who has no prior arrests, allegedly told authorities when he was picked up, according to cops and sources. 3

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Police said Alexandra Sabine Lewalter Maric, 50, of Hamburg, was killed when a 2001 Toyota Sienna driver backed up at a high rate of speed at East 40th Street and Fifth Avenue around 2:40 p.m. on Wednesda

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