Dirt bike rider badly hurt after slamming into side of NYPD SUV in Brooklyn

Kerry Burke, New York Daily News
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A dirt bike rider was hospitalized after colliding with an NYPD SUV at a busy Brooklyn intersection Tuesday, authorities said.

The 38-year-old rider was going east on Linden Blvd. just after 3 p.m. when he slammed into the rear passenger side of an NYPD vehicle heading south on Pennsylvania Ave. in East New York, police sources said.

“He was speeding on his bike and he tried to stop, but he was going too fast. Boom! He hit the cop car and flew over it and he landed on his stomach. His bike flipped. No helmet, no helmet,” said Preston Ravenelle, 53.

“When they went to pick him up off the ground he was bleeding heavily from the head. I still can’t believe it. I was on my way from White Castle and I had to throw my food away. I couldn’t eat it.”

Medics took the motorcyclist to Brookdale Hospital in stable condition, though witnesses and sources said he suffered severe head trauma.

The police SUV was responding to a report of an assault in progress, and a preliminary investigation showed the cops were using their lights and sirens, an NYPD spokesman said.

“There were a bunch of police vehicles with their lights and sirens going,” said another witness, who didn’t give his name. “He was flying when he hit the cop car. He was thrown and I didn’t see no helmet.”