Motorcyclist injured after slamming cop car
BY BEN BRACHFELD
A motorcyclist was hospitalized
on Tuesday afternoon, Nov.
2, after allegedly slamming into
a police squad car in East New
York.
A police spokesperson said
that the squad car was driving
on Pennsylvania Avenue en
route to a call of a “large fi ght
involving bats” when a motorcyclist
reportedly collided with the
rear passenger-side door of the
squad car near the intersection
with Linden Boulevard. The incident
occurred at about 3:15 pm
Tuesday.
The spokesperson said that
the motorcyclist was taken to
Brookdale Hospital, where they
are “conscious and alert,” while
the offi cers were taken to Jamaica
Hospital in Queens for an
evaluation. An investigation is
ongoing.
The police car and motorcycle involved in a Nov. 2 collision at Pennsylvania Avenue and Linden Boulevard. Photo by Lloyd Mitchell
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Linden Boulevard is one of the
deadliest roads in the borough,
especially east of Kings Highway
where it is an eight-lane highway
that nonetheless intersects with
the regular street grid. A total of
25 people have died in collisions
on Linden since 2011, all east of
Kings Highway.
The city’s Department of
Transportation in 2015 initiated
a plan to implement street safety
improvements on Linden as part
of the mayor’s Vision Zero program,
in which Linden is a “priority
corridor” owing to its high
number of pedestrian deaths.
The city has implemented several
measures in the intervening
years, including lowering
the speed limit to 25 miles per
hour and enlarging medians,
though street safety advocates
contend that the measures are
insuffi cient.
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