Teen moped rider dies after Brooklyn collision with turning driver
A driver turning a sedan and 17-year-old moped rider Jhoan Puga were involved in a June 23 collision near East 8th Street and Avenue N in Brooklyn that left Puga dead and his passenger critically injured.
Location reported in Open Data.
What We Know
Jhoan Puga, 17, was riding north on East 8th Street with a passenger when he and a driver turning a Genesis G80 were involved in a collision. A second collision involved a parked, unoccupied Honda Odyssey. Puga died, and his passenger was critically injured. Reports disagree on whether Puga died at the scene or at the hospital, and on whether the Genesis driver was a man or a woman. The city record identifies the sedan driver as female.
The collision on East 8th Street
Puga was riding north with a passenger when he and the driver of a left-turning Genesis G80 were involved in a collision. A second collision involved a parked, unoccupied Honda Odyssey. Both people on the moped were thrown from it.
The reported location
The city record places the June 23 crash at East 8th Street and Avenue N in Brooklyn. News accounts describe East 8th Street in Midwood, but Patch gives a different vicinity: Avenue K and Ocean Parkway.
The riders and the turning driver
The Daily News identified the 17-year-old moped rider as Jhoan Puga and described his passenger as an elderly man. Both were critically injured; Puga died, while his passenger remained in critical condition when the newspaper reported the crash.
Accounts disagree about the Genesis driver. The Daily News described a 71-year-old man, while amNewYork described a 71-year-old woman. The city record identifies the sedan driver as female.
Conflicting accounts of Puga's death
The Daily News reported that emergency medical workers took Puga and his passenger to Maimonides Medical Center and that Puga died there. AmNewYork reported that he died at the scene. Both outlets said the Genesis driver remained at the scene and that police had made no arrests as investigators examined the collision.