Officers from the 79th Precinct responded to a 911 call of a motor vehicle collision at Myrtle and Bedford Avenues in Williamsburg at around 4:40 a.m. on Sept. 2. A 25-year-old man operating a gas-powered two-wheeled vehicle eastbound on Myrtle Avenue collided with a gray Subaru sedan heading northbound on Bedford Avenue driven by a 51-year-old man, which ejected him onto the roadway. He was then struck by a white Nissan driven by a 22-year-old man. EMS transported the moped driver to Kings County Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Both car drivers remained at the scene; no arrests were made and the NYPD Highway District's Collision Investigation Squad is investigating. NYPD data shows one fatality involving a motorized two-wheeler in the 79th Precinct so far this year, and collisions involving motorized two-wheelers are down just over 3% year-to-date compared to the same period in 2024.
A moped driver was killed in a chain-reaction collision after he was struck by a car, propelled off his device, and then struck again by a second vehicle in Brooklyn early Tuesday morning. According to law enforcement sources, officers from the 79th Precinct responded to a 911 call of a motor vehicle collision at Myrtle and Bedford Avenues in Williamsburg at around 4:40 a.m. on Sept. 2.
Authorities said that a 25-year-old man was operating a gas-powered two-wheeled vehicle eastbound on Myrtle Avenue when he collided with a gray Subaru sedan, heading northbound on Bedford Avenue and driven by a 51-year-old man. Upon the strike, the driver of the device was ejected from the two-wheeler, landed on the roadway and was then struck again, this time by a white Nissan operated by a 22-year-old man. EMS responded and rushed the moped driver to Kings County Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
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