Porsche SUV driver fatally injured Queens scooter rider
A Porsche SUV driver hit Brendan Marmolejos, 30, while he rode a standup electric scooter at Vernon Boulevard and 44th Drive on July 20, 2022; the city record logged one death, and the Daily News reported he died at Bellevue a week later.
What We Know
On July 20, 2022, at about 6 p.m., police and city crash data placed a fatal collision at Vernon Boulevard and 44th Drive in Long Island City. The Daily News reported that a Porsche SUV driver hit Brendan Marmolejos, 30, as he rode a standup electric scooter on 44th Drive and then left the scene. Marmolejos was taken to Bellevue Hospital with a severe head injury and died on July 27. The city record lists an SUV and an e-scooter involved, and records the rider as a 30-year-old man. Two days after the crash, Dwayne Bovell, 40, surrendered with an attorney; police charged him with leaving the scene of an accident with serious injury, while the Queens District Attorney's office deferred prosecution during its investigation.
A rider was hit at the Long Island City intersection
The city crash record places the collision at Vernon Boulevard and 44th Drive in Queens at 5:59 p.m. on July 20, 2022, involving an SUV and an e-scooter. It records one person killed: a 30-year-old male e-scooter rider.
The Daily News identified the rider as Brendan Marmolejos and reported that a Porsche SUV driver hit him while he rode a standup electric scooter on 44th Drive at Vernon Boulevard, then left the scene.
Vernon Boulevard has recorded repeated crash harm
The reported crash location was Vernon Boulevard and 44th Drive in Queens, on the Vernon Boulevard corridor.
CrashCountNYC's Crash Finder counts 404 crashes, 194 injuries, eight serious injuries and two deaths on Vernon Boulevard in Queens from 2022 through June 1, 2026.
Brendan Marmolejos died after a week in the hospital
The Daily News reported that Marmolejos was taken to Bellevue Hospital with a severe head injury and died there on July 27, one week after the crash.
In a GoFundMe post quoted by the Daily News, his cousin Jason Meneses wrote, “The pain is immeasurable for all of us,” and said money raised would go toward medical bills and funeral expenses.
The record describes an SUV and an e-scooter
The city record lists a 2022 PORS car or SUV and a Ninebot e-scooter. It recorded southbound travel for the SUV and westbound travel for the e-scooter before the crash.
The Daily News described the scooter as a standup electric scooter and the other vehicle as a Porsche SUV.
Police announced a surrender, but prosecutors deferred the case
The Daily News reported that Dwayne Bovell, 40, surrendered to police with an attorney two days after the crash.
Police charged Bovell with leaving the scene of an accident with serious injury, the Daily News reported. The Queens District Attorney's office deferred prosecution while investigators continued their work, according to the same report.