Teen passenger died after Queens motorcycle crash
A 15-year-old moped rider ran a traffic control on Cooper Avenue and hit a turning SUV. His 16-year-old passenger was thrown off and killed. He suffered a fractured leg. The SUV driver and passenger reported neck and leg pain.
What We Know
A 15-year-old boy was operating a 2021 Yamaha motorcycle east on Cooper Avenue when the crash happened at 88th Street in Glendale on Feb. 21, 2022. Police told the Daily News that Alexandra “Allie” Ariza, 16, of Nyack, was riding behind him when he hit the front of a Mazda CX-30 outside St. John Cemetery. Both teenagers were thrown from the motorcycle. Alexandra suffered a head injury and died at Jamaica Hospital two days later. The boy was treated for a leg injury, and the Mazda driver and passenger had minor injuries. The city crash record cited traffic-control disregard and listed driver inexperience for the Yamaha operator; police reported that no charges had been filed.
A passenger was thrown from a motorcycle outside the cemetery
Police told the Daily News that Alexandra “Allie” Ariza was seated behind a 15-year-old boy operating a 2021 Yamaha motorcycle on Cooper Avenue when he hit the front of a Mazda CX-30 near 88th Street in Glendale. The city crash record places the collision at 3:13 p.m. on Feb. 21, 2022.
Both teenagers were thrown from the motorcycle. Alexandra suffered a head injury and was taken to Jamaica Hospital, where she died two days later.
Cooper Avenue and 88th Street in Glendale
The crash happened at Cooper Avenue and 88th Street in Queens, just outside St. John Cemetery, according to the city crash record and the police account reported by the Daily News.
CrashCountNYC’s location review counts 379 crashes, 204 injuries, 12 serious injuries and one death along 88th Street in Queens since 2022.
Alexandra Ariza died; three other people were hurt
Alexandra “Allie” Ariza, 16, of Nyack, Rockland County, was the rear passenger on the motorcycle, the Daily News reported. The city crash record also identifies the person killed as a 16-year-old female passenger.
The crash involved a Yamaha motorcycle and a Mazda SUV
The city vehicle record lists a 2021 Yamaha motorcycle traveling east with two occupants and a 2021 Mazda SUV traveling northwest while its driver was making a left turn. The Daily News, citing police, described the Mazda as a CX-30.
A city crash-summary field classified the first vehicle as a moped, while the detailed vehicle record listed it as a motorcycle and police described it as a Yamaha motorcycle.
The city record cited traffic-control disregard
The city crash record attributed the collision to traffic-control disregard. In the Yamaha motorcycle entry, the city also listed driver inexperience and recorded the operator as unlicensed.
Police told the Daily News that no charges had been filed as of the article’s publication.