BROOKLYN, N.Y. — A moped driver died Saturday morning after colliding with a car in Bay Ridge, the New York Police Department reported.
Joel Mota, 22, of Sunset Park was pronounced dead at NYU Langone Hospital–Brooklyn. Mota suffered serious injuries to his head and torso, according to NYPD.
Officers responded to the accident at Third Avenue and 67th Street at around 4:45 a.m. The collision occurred when the moped struck a car’s passenger-side door.
A 21-year-old man riding as a passenger on the moped sustained multiple fractures to his left arm and leg. He was also transported to the hospital.
A 29-year-old Sheepshead Bay woman was driving a 2013 Acura TSX west on 67th Street. Mota was traveling south on Third Avenue when the vehicles collided.
NYPD officers arrested the driver on charges of driving while intoxicated and without a license. She was taken to the hospital in stable condition.
Mota lived less than a half-mile from the crash site, authorities said.
The accident remains under investigation.
