Pickup driver Alex Cruz was charged after a fatal Clearview Expressway crash.
Pickup driver Alex Cruz was arrested after police said he drove away from a June 22 crash on the Clearview Expressway; the official record dates the collision to 9:41 p.m. and lists one motorist killed.
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What We Know
Police said Alex Cruz was changing lanes in a white 2022 Toyota Tacoma pickup on the southbound Clearview Expressway when a motorcyclist hit its rear, then struck a guardrail and was thrown onto the pavement. The 39-year-old rider died, and police said Cruz drove away and was later arrested in Fresh Meadows.
Police described a rear-end collision.
The official crash record places the collision on the Clearview Expressway at 9:41 p.m. on June 22, 2024, and records one motorist killed. Police told QNS that a 39-year-old man riding a 2012 BMW motorcycle southbound hit the rear of a pickup that was changing lanes; the rider then struck a guardrail and was thrown onto the pavement. QNS reported that EMS pronounced him dead at the scene.
The crash closed the southbound expressway for hours.
QNS placed the crash on the southbound Clearview Expressway south of Northern Boulevard in Bayside and reported that the expressway remained closed for hours.
The crash involved a BMW motorcycle and a Toyota pickup.
Police identified the motorcycle as a 2012 BMW and the pickup as a white 2022 Toyota Tacoma. QNS reported that Cruz was driving the pickup and the 39-year-old man was riding the motorcycle.
Police arrested Cruz in Fresh Meadows.
QNS reported that Cruz, 23, of White Plains, was arrested at Horace Harding Expressway and Utopia Parkway in Fresh Meadows. QNS described charges of leaving the scene of an accident and aggravated driving without a license; Yahoo described the second charge as driving without a license.