Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
The Supreme Court providently exercised its discretion in denying the plaintiff's motion for leave to amend the complaint to add a claim for punitive damages. Evidence that the defendant driver, Anthony Saltamacchia, was convicted of leaving the scene of an accident, although reprehensible, was not a proximate cause of the injuries to the plaintiff's decedent (see Boykin v. Mora,
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