A 25-year-old man died last night when he lost control of his motorcycle while riding among more than a dozen others in an apparent race through a residential neighborhood on Staten Island. (NYC)
The victim was riding his motorcycle near the corner of Richmond Ave. and Signs Road in Bulls Head around 7:50 p.m. Tuesday when skidded and hit a light pole in the central median of the avenue. The man He was wearing a helmet, but still suffered a serious head injury, according to the New York Police Department (NYPD).
Paramedics took the injured young man to Richmond University Medical Center, but they couldn’t save him. His name was not immediately released as police worked to notify his family.
About 15 motorcyclists were racing at the time and the accident caused all but one of them to disperse, the sources added.
At the end of February, also on Staten Island, a 78-year-old driver died after a chain of traffic accident when she collided with another car and ended up hitting an electrical pole.
In August, a Latino father died as a result of an illegal two-car race on a highway in Manhattan (NYC), leaving 6 orphaned children. At the end of 2021, a Hispanic teenager died after rolling over several times during an apparent car race in Harlem. Also that year, a woman was killed and her husband was injured when a speeding driver jumped the curb and hit them in the back. Brooklyn (NYC).
In another similar case, in the summer of 2020, three minors died in a high-speed traffic accident on a clandestine runway at Floyd Bennett Field, an airport that is no longer operational in Brooklyn.
The authorities remember that there is zero tolerance for drivers who drive at excess speed and/or under the influence of alcohol and drugs..
In December Governor Kathy Hochul signed the “Angelica Law”, intended to keep drivers with prior suspensions off the road by felony charging repeat offenders who operate vehicles after committing five or more traffic violations that resulted in suspensions or revocations.
2024-03-13 15:11:00
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