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Three Motorcycle Accidents Around City Leave 2 Dead
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Jen Chung
Published Aug 22, 2010
Modified Aug 22, 2010
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In the span of two hours, two people were injured and two dead in three motorcycle accidents in three boroughs. According to the Post, the first was at 11:10 p.m., "when a 35-year-old man smacked into a car on Ocean Parkway near Avenue Y"; he is now in stable condition. Around 12:30 a.m., two people on one motorcycle
"smashed into a wall on the FDR near Broad Street in Manhattan," killing both of them. Then, "10 minutes later, a man crashed his cycle on the Van Wyck Expressway near the Nassau Expressway in Queens. The victim's leg was severed and was rushed to Jamaica Hospital."
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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