Teen moped rider dies after Midwood collision
Official records show one person killed and one injured at East 8th Street and Avenue N; police told the Daily News that 17-year-old Jhoan Puga died after he rode north on a gas moped and collided with a driver turning a Genesis G80.
What We Know
Jhoan Puga, 17, was riding a gas moped north on East 8th Street with a passenger when, police told the Daily News, he collided with a Genesis G80 driver who was making a left turn. Police said the rider then collided with an unoccupied Honda Odyssey, and both moped riders were thrown off and taken to Maimonides Medical Center in critical condition. Jhoan later died. The official crash record lists one person killed and one injured, both motorists, and records a moped, a sedan and a parked SUV involved. It cites improper passing or lane use for the crash and lists unsafe speed as a factor for the moped. The Daily News reported no arrests and said the NYPD Highway District Collision Squad was investigating.
What police said happened
Police told the Daily News that Jhoan Puga, 17, was riding a gas moped north on East 8th Street in Midwood with a passenger on the back when he collided with a Genesis G80 driver making a left turn off East 8th Street.
Police said the moped rider then collided with an unoccupied Honda Odyssey. Both riders were thrown off and sustained trauma to the body.
Jhoan Puga died; his passenger was critically injured
EMS took Jhoan and his passenger to Maimonides Medical Center in critical condition. The Daily News reported that Jhoan later died at the hospital.
The official record identifies the person killed as a 17-year-old male moped driver and lists one additional motorist injured.
Records and press accounts differ on the Genesis driver
The Daily News, citing police, described the Genesis G80 operator as a 71-year-old man who stayed at the scene and was not injured. The official crash record lists the sedan driver as a licensed female driver.
The official record lists three involved vehicles: a 2024 Zhilong moped traveling north, a 2023 Hyundai sedan traveling north and making a left turn, and a parked 2024 Honda SUV.
The official record cites lane use and speed
City crash data lists improper passing or lane use as the contributing factor for the crash. In the moped vehicle entry, the record also lists unsafe speed as a contributing factor and records the moped driver as unlicensed.
The Daily News reported that there were no arrests and that the NYPD Highway District Collision Squad was investigating.
East 8th Street and Avenue N sit on a high-injury corridor
The crash happened at East 8th Street and Avenue N in Brooklyn, at the Midwood location recorded in city crash data.
CrashCountNYC’s location context for Avenue N in Brooklyn counts 607 crashes, 512 injuries, 31 serious injuries and 4 deaths since 2022.