A 16-year-old girl who lost her life in a moped accident in Queens last year was honored at Jamaica Hospital Wednesday after her family made the brave decision to donate the girl’s organs.

Pamela Ariza Marrero said her daughter, Alexandra Ariza, also known as Allie, had big plans for her future.

“She was looking to go to college in Florida,” Ariza said. “That was going to be our next step.”

Unfortunately, Allie never got the opportunity to attend college.

On Feb. 21, 2022, Allie was riding on the back of a moped near 88th Street and Cooper Avenue in the Glendale section of Queens when the moped collided with a car.

“They were hit,” Ariza said. “She was ejected from the moped and brought here to Jamaica Hospital.”

Allie died two days later.

Ariza and her family decided to donate Allie’s organs, which they say that’s what she would want.

As it turns out, she was right. Ariza later learned about a week before she died, Allie signed up to be an organ donor.

“It only solidified to me what I already knew about my girl, that she always wanted to help,” she said.

During Wednesday’s ceremony, Jamaica Hospital leadership and LiveOn NY, a nonprofit organization that educates people about organ donations and helps facilitate the process, recognized Allie as organ donor hero said her heart, liver and both of her kidneys have been used to save lives.

“In this case with Allie, she was an organ donor. She saved three people’s lives and gave that gift generationally to their friends who will now be with them and enjoy them for a very much more longer time,” Leonard Achan, president and CEO of LiveOn NY, said.

According to the organization, one organ donor can save up to eight lives and improve the lives of up to 75 people.

Many more people, however, are still waiting.

In New York State, more than 8,000 people are on a wait list for an organ transplant. Nationally, that number tops 100,000 people.

Pediatrician Sheree Watson, who was also honored at the ceremony, was once one of them.

“There were definitely moments when I felt desperate because I couldn’t think about anything else,” Watson said.

Diagnosed with an autoimmune disease more than a decade ago, Watson had finished her residency in 2014 when her liver began to fail.

Nine months later, her number was finally called.

“I just didn’t have any ability to see my future until I got through this impasse, that was needing a liver,” she said.

Although Allie is no longer here, she and other organ donors continue to give people like Dr. Watson another shot at life.

“It brings our family some peace in [knowing] that a part of her continues to live on and knowing she continues to help and touch others by giving the gift of life,” Ariza said.