The NYPD is investigating two separate fatal collisions that took place in Queens during the evening of Friday, Aug. 23 .
The first fatal crash occurred in the confines of the 107th Precinct in Fresh Meadows just after 6:30 p.m. near the intersection of 184th Street and 73rd Avenue, when a 17-year-old boy was operating a 2023 Jiajue motorcycle with a 21-year-old man as his rear passenger.
According to a preliminary investigation by the NYPD Highway District’s Collision Investigation Squad, the two riders were traveling eastbound on 73rd Street, when the teenager failed to navigate the roadway and slammed into the front side of a 2017 Acura RDX driven by a 75-year-old man who had been traveling northbound on 184th Street. The impact with the SUV ejected both riders. EMS responded to the scene and rushed them to NewYork-Presbyterians Queens Hospital, where the 21-year-old man was pronounced dead and the 17-year-old was listed in stable condition, police said.
The deceased was later identified as Juan Aguilar, 21, of 139th Street in Jamaica.
There are no arrests and the investigation remains ongoing.
Later Friday evening, police from the 105th Precinct in Queens Village responded to a 911 call of a motor vehicle collision involving a pedestrian struck on the Cross Island Parkway near exit 25 of the Belt Parkway, in Cambria Heights.
Further investigation by the NYPD Highway District’s Collision Investigation Squad determined that a 2016 KIA Sorento with a 72-year-old man behind the wheel was traveling northbound on the Laurelton Parkway approaching exit 25 when he struck a 45-year-old woman who was crossing from east to west. EMS responded to the scene and rushed the injured woman to Franklin Hospital Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead, and later identified as Marie Jean-Louis, of Monaco Avenue in Elmont, police said.
The driver of the KIA remained at the scene and was not arrested, but the investigation by the NYPD Highway District’s Collision Investigation Squad remains ongoing.
