Second Racer Arrested In Death Of Beloved Inwood Dad: NYPD

INWOOD — A second driver was arrested Thursday over a month after a luxury car race ended with the death of a beloved Inwood father on the Henry Hudson Parkway, according to police and reports.

Marcos Vega-Pagan, 24, faces a number of charges, including manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide and insurance fraud following his role in the crash that killed Joel Quintana, 42, near West 145th Street the night of Aug. 3, police said.

Quintana was riding his 2022 Honda GROM motorcycle downtown — the New York Daily News reports he was headed to work as a manager at the Upper East Side Loews Hotel — when he was hit from behind by a speeding gray BMW, police said.

Quintana was thrown from the bike and hit by a black Mercedes Benz, also speeding police said.

The two cars raced away and although medics rushed Quintana to Harlem Hospital, they could not save his life, police said.

Quintana's sister Carolina Rodriguez told the Daily News he left behind a wife and six children, including a son whose last words to his father were, "Just be very careful please.”

Rodriguez reportedly said her brother was a hardworking family man deeply mourned by his family.

“[His] 6-year-old is very sad," Rodriguez told the News. "He keeps asking for his dad.”

Just a week earlier, an unlicensed driver, Bushwick resident Cary Brown, 28, was also arrested in connection to the crash and was also charged with manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, leaving the scene of a fatal accident and aggravated unlicensed operator, police said.