Josue Mordoqueo Vicente Yac, a 17-year-old Guatemalan immigrant, died when his unregistered motorcycle hit a tractor-trailer while leaving his job at a restaurant in Brooklyn (NYC).
According to police, the teen was on his way home when he was crashed in Sunset Park around 2:30 a.m. Saturday. He was the youngest in a family of seven siblings and I worked in two restaurants as a kitchen assistant, he reported Daily News.
A 17-year-old homesick Guatemalan immigrant was killed riding his moped when he was struck by a tractor-trailer driver in Brooklyn, police say
“He was a very kind person and a very humble boy with a big heart,” his sister told the Daily News.https://t.co/dlAvvc4yDP
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The fatal collision cut short the victim’s dreams, his sister said in a telephone interview from San Andrés Semetabaj, the small Guatemalan town he left last year to come to New York City to join some of his siblings and earn money.
Vicente and the truck driver were heading south on 4th Avenue when the driver turned right onto 39th Street and struck the young man, who It was about a mile from his house.. Paramedics took him to NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn, but were unable to save him.
The unidentified 41-year-old driver of the tractor-trailer left the scene, but went to a police station a short time later. to tell them that maybe he would have hit someone. He has not been charged, but police were still investigating the accident.
“I’m very sad”, said Zambian Sister Antonieta Vicenta Yac, 33, speaking in Spanish. “He was my younger brother. With his death we are six, not seven.” And she added: “He said he wanted to work.… He said he wanted to achieve many things. She always called us. He was a very kind person and a very humble boy with a big heart. He wanted to stay better.”
Vicente was the 15th victim killed while driving an unregistered moped or similar vehicle in the city this year, according to data from the Department of Transportation (DOT). Another 34 people have died since the beginning of the year while riding motorcycles or mopeds registered in the five boroughs.
In August there were several fatal accidents in New York involving motorcycles. By this time last year, NYC had recorded 15 deaths among those riding unregistered “other motor vehicles,” a general category that includes electric and gasoline-powered mopeds, electric stand-up scooters, and other devices like unregistered hoverboards. Last year, around this time, thirty motorcyclists had already died.
New York authorities remind that there is zero tolerance for drivers who drive at excess speed and/or under the influence of alcohol and drugs..
Traffic accidents are a great challenge in New York. This despite “Vision Zero” road safety plan created in 2014 by then-new Mayor Bill de Blasio, who promised to make the city safer for pedestrians, cyclists and motorists with a goal of zero deaths by 2024. According to the NYPD, Cyclist deaths increased 260% in the first six months of 2023 and 325% since the implementation of the “Vision Zero” plan in 2014. In many cases the drivers flee.
2023-09-19 05:08:50
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