Two On Motorcycle Seriously Hurt
A Richmond Hill man has been arraigned on charges of vehicular assault and driving while under the influence of alcohol following a collision early Thursday morning, Aug. 17 with a motorcycle in which its two riders were seriously injured, law enforcement sources stated.
Omesh Mohan, 29, of 135th Street in Richmond Hill, was arraigned on Saturday, Aug. 18 before Queens Criminal Court Judge Manuel Mendez on a criminal complaint charging him with first- and second-degree vehicular assault, operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or drugs and having no insurance.
Mohan was ordered held on $100,000 bail and to return to court on Sept. 5. If convicted, he faces up to seven years in prison.
According to the charges, Mohan was driving on 124th Street in a 2005 Cadillac Escalade SUV between the hours of 4 and 5 a.m. on Aug. 17 when he approached the intersection of 124th Street and Atlantic Avenue.
In a statement allegedly made to police, Mohan stated that he had stopped at the stop sign, looked both ways and that when he went to pull out a motorcycle hit his vehicle on the driver’s side.
Police responding to the scene allegedly found Mohan standing next to the Escalade, which was halfway in the intersection and had damage to rear and front doors on the driver’s side.
A Suzuki motorcycle was also observed partially under the vehicle. The driver of the motorcycle, Naquawn McIntosh, 23, was found semi-conscious and pinned between motorcycle and the Escalade, while Corney McIntosh, 21, the passenger of the motorcycle, was discovered inside the Escalade, in the second row of seats, bleeding from his arm and face.
Reportedly, both passengers were taken to Jamaica Hospital. Corney McIntosh, who is in critical condition as a result of suffering head trauma, intercranial bleeding, a broken pelvis, femur and arm, and brain injuries due to the lack of oxygen, is presently in a medically induced coma. Naquawn McIntosh suffered a neck fracture.
According to news reports, emergency services personnel responding to the scene took 20 minutes to find Corney McIntosh; a second ambulance was called to transport him to the medical facility.
Mohan was allegedly observed to have bloodshot, watery eyes and an odor of alcohol on his breath. An intoxilyzer test administered to Mohan allegedly resulted in a blood alcohol content reading of .17 percent- above the legal limit of .08 percent in New York. Mohan allegedly told po- lice that prior to the collision, he had he consumed one vodka drink at a nightclub, and that he had been operating the vehicle at the time of the collision.
According to state Department of Motor Vehicle records, insurance on the Escalade had expired on Aug. 13.
Assistant District Attorney Patricia Diaz of the District Attorney’s Homicide Investigations Bureau is prosecuting the case with the assistance of Assistant District Attorney John Kosinski, Chief of the Vehicular Homicide Unit, under the supervision of Assistant District Attorneys Peter T. Reese, Bureau Chief, and Peter J. McCormack III and Richard B. Schaeffer, Deputy Bureau Chiefs, and the overall supervision of Executive Assistant District Attorney for Major Crimes Charles A. Testagrossa and Deputy Executive Assistant District Attorney for Major Crimes Daniel A. Saunders.
It was noted that a criminal complaint is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty.
