A 29-year-old motorcyclist was fatally struck by a BMW SUV driver in Queens early Monday, police said.
Raiguel Tapia-Villar was speeding through Howard Beach on a Honda motorcycle and about to cross the Joseph P. Addabo Memorial Bridge to Broad Channel when he was struck about 1:20 a.m., cops said.
The BMW SUV driver had just crossed the bridge and was turning left off Cross Bay Blvd. onto 165th Ave. when he struck the victim, who lived in the Arverne section of the Rockaways, police said.
Tapia-Villar was rushed by medics to Jamaica Hospital but could not be saved. The 24-yar-old man driving the BMW driver was being questioned by cops but faced no immediate charges.
Twenty-four hours earlier, a motorcyclist died when he crashed into a wall and was then run over by a driver on the Belt Parkway.
Mohammed Hoque, 23, lost control of his gray Yamaha in the parkway’s westbound lanes near Springfield Gardens just before 1:20 a.m., police said.
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Hoque struck a center divider and fell to the pavement, where he was run over by a driver who kept going.
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Hoque, who lived in Brooklyn’s Cypress Hills, died at the scene. Cops are still looking for the driver who struck him.
Motorcyclist, 29, fatally struck by BMW SUV driver in Queens
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