Motorcyclist Dies After Crashing Into NYPD Car On Park Ave: Cops

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — A motorcyclist died Monday night after crashing into a marked police vehicle that was responding to an emergency on the Upper East Side, an NYPD spokesman said.

A 32-year-old man was driving his motorcycle down Park Avenue around 11 p.m. when he crashed into the police vehicle near the intersection of East 96th Street, an NYPD spokesman said. The police vehicle had its lights and sirens activated at the time of the crash, the spokesman said.

EMS pronounced the driver dead at the scene and rushed a female passenger to an area hospital with non-critical injuries, an NYPD spokesman said.

Preliminary reports indicate that no police officers were injured during the crash, an NYPD spokesman said.

The cause of the crash is still being investigated, police said.

A doorman working in a building near the crash site described the aftermath of the wreck to the New York Post.

"It was a long sound, and the reason for that I’m thinking is the bike being dragged – must have been thirty feet. You heard a crash. Definitely the sound of a crash," the doorman told the Post.

"As soon as the crash happened all those [cops] just ran over to the poor guy on the ground and started to give him CPR… the cops ran over in less than a second."

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