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COURIER L 12 IFE, JULY 16-22, 2021
Speeding driver
with fake police
lights crashes
into NYPD car
Pexels/Viajero
BY BEN BRACHFELD
A speeding driver behind
the wheel of a Ford
SUV crashed into a cop
car in Kensington on
Thursday night, sending
three people to the hospital,
and the driver to the
slammer.
The SUV driver,
whom police identifi ed
as 29-year-old Moshe
Cohen of Midwood, was
blazing southbound on
Coney Island Avenue at
around 7:20 pm, while
displaying sirens and
red-and-blue lights common
on unmarked police
cars, per video of the incident.
An NYPD spokesperson
told Brooklyn Paper,
however, that the vehicle
was not a police car, and
that the sirens and fl ashing
lights were attached
to the car illegally.
Surveillance video
shows Cohen driving between
lanes of traffi c at
high speeds, including
on the wrong side of the
road, before reaching
the intersection of Foster
Avenue, where other
drivers were waiting at a
red light.
Failing to stop, Cohen
sped through the intersection
and collided
with a NYPD patrol car,
which had active lights
and sirens, as the cops
were responding to a call
near Foster Avenue.
The impact severely
damaged both vehicles,
and caused the police car
to collide with a nearby
Toyota. Cohen’s car
ended up smashing into
a traffi c light pole, which
then collapsed.
Video of the scene
shows Cohen lying on
the ground after the
crash, bloodied and in
pain, and being assisted
by pedestrians before
paramedics arrived to
take him away.
EMS workers took the
drivers of all three impacted
vehicles — Cohen,
a 28-year-old police offi -
cer, and the 32-year-old
Toyota driver — to Maimonides
Medical Center
with non-life-threatening
injuries, a NYPD
spokesperson said.
Police arrested Cohen
and slapped him
with a litany of charges,
including reckless driving,
reckless endangerment,
speed violations,
unauthorized emergency
colored lights, failing
to obey traffi c signals, a
license plate violation,
and others.
The incident comes
after a number of other
recent crashes around
the fi ve boroughs, including
two fatal hitand
runs yesterday. A
driver in a Subaru Outback
killed a 24-year-old
cyclist in Manhattan,
and a 67-year-old woman
died after being struck
by a sedan, and then an
MTA bus on a Queens
roadway. All three of the
involved motorists drove
off without stopping,
cops said.
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