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Police searching for driver who allegedly left scene of fatal Staten Island crash
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Brittany Kriegstein
Published Mar 12, 2024
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Police are investigating two traffic deaths in Staten Island and Brooklyn that killed two men on Monday.
NYPD officers responded to a car crash on Goethals Road North near Jules Drive in Staten Island’s Graniteville neighborhood after 10 p.m. and found Usman Chugahtai, a 26-year-old resident of the borough, severely injured. They pronounced him dead at the scene.
Police later determined Chugahtai was a passenger in a Black BMW sedan whose driver had lost control on a multilane side street and slammed into a utility pole and fire hydrant. The driver fled the scene on foot, according to NYPD officials, and had not been tracked down by Tuesday afternoon.
Another passenger, a 23-year-old man who has not been identified, was injured and transported in stable condition to Richmond University Medical Center.
E-bike rider perishes in Sunset Park
Brooklyn resident Jundi Hu, 67, died hours earlier in Sunset Park after he lost control of an e-bike he was riding and fell into the roadbed near 53rd Street and Sixth Avenue around 4 p.m. on Monday, police said.
NYPD officials said Hu was severely injured and pronounced dead at NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn.
No other vehicles were involved and no obstacles on the road appeared to have caused the crash, according to police. The incident remained under investigation on Tuesday.
Police said Hu lived in Bay Ridge, about a mile from where he fell off the e-bike.
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