Greenpoint Porsche Road-Rager Held On $2,500 Cash Bail

GREENPOINT, BROOKLYN — Williamsburg man Guo Lu, the driver who slammed his Porsche SUV into a 14-year-old boy at a Greenpoint intersection on Sunday night, was arraigned on Monday, and his bail was set at $3,500 bond or $2,500 cash, a spokesperson with the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office told Patch. The 39-year-old man was charged with assault, operating outside of a lane, violating a pedestrian's right of way in a crosswalk, excessive speed, reckless endangerment and reckless driving, according to the Brooklyn DA's office. To follow other pedestrian injuries and fatalities in Williamsburg and Greenpoint, subscribe to the neighborhood's Patch for email newsletters and live updates.

A little after 6 p.m., at the intersection of Greenpoint and Manhattan avenues, Lu was fuming that a Honda was coming out of a parking spot exactly where he wanted to get by, eyewitness Eryk Kozub said, according to the criminal complaint from the Brooklyn DA's office. Lu slammed the gas pedal and ended up crashing into the Honda, according to the complaint. The Porsche then veered onto the sidewalk, hitting a building and the 14-year-old Draven Boyle, who was thrown 10 feet backwards before Lu's Porsche hit the steps of a second building and came to a halting stop, the complaint said.

According to the complaint, when emergency responders arrived at the scene, Boyle was going in and out of consciousness, having difficulty breathing and was unable to speak. The teen suffered broken ribs, a lesion to his lung, swelling and bruising to his body and substantial pain, the complaint said.

Boyle's cousin Loretta Cunneely wrote on her Facebook Monday that Boyle was "still in ICU, pretty banged up, but the breathing tube is out. Praying for his speedy recovery." Patch has reached out to Cunneely for an update on the teen's health and will update if we hear back.

The accident spurred debate in a closed Facebook group of North Brooklyn residents about the dangers to pedestrians of that particular intersection. "Those streets there are so narrow at that point (and congested with pedestrians) that these cars should have been going slow," one resident wrote. "That intersection has been horrible lately. I've seen ppl driving like douches there with no police presence," another resident commented.

A group of Greenpoint and Williamsburg residents are holding a meeting on pedestrian safety on Wednesday called North Brooklyn Safe Streets Meet Up. "After some awful crashes in the past couple weeks, this group has had some great conversations about street safety and what we'd like to see in the neighborhood going froward," the Facebook event says. "Would love for some of us to come together in person to discuss some of these issues and how we can work together to make our neighborhood streets safer for everyone." The meeting is open to the public, and it begins on Wednesday at 7 p.m. at Greenpoint Beer & Ale Co. Find more information about attending here.

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