{"id":191475,"date":"2026-04-09T22:49:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T22:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/191475\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T22:49:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T22:49:35","slug":"bronx-motocycle-driver-dies-after-smashing-into-mta-bus-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/191475\/","title":{"rendered":"Bronx motocycle driver dies after smashing into MTA bus: cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"738\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-09-at-3.58.10-PM.jpg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"Screenshot 2026-04-09 at 3.58.10\u202fPM\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   title=\"Bronx motocycle driver dies after smashing into MTA bus: cops 1\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A view of West Mosholu Parkway South, near Jerome Avenue, where a motorcycle driver died after smashing into an MTA bus.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Google Street View<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>A 32-year-old male motorcycle driver is dead after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/news\/staten-island-crash-pedestrian-dead-04062026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">crashing<\/a> into an MTA bus in the Bronx on Wednesday evening, the NYPD announced on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Cops said they responded to a 5:14 p.m. April 8 911 call reporting the incident on West Mosholu Parkway South, near where it intersects with Jerome Avenue, within the NYPD\u2019s 52nd Precinct. The location is by the elevated Mosholu Pkwy 4 train station.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, the Zhilong motorcycle driver \u2014 identified as 32-year-old Andy Peralta \u2014 made a left turn onto West Mosholu Parkway South after traveling northbound on Jerome Avenue. Published reports indicate Peralta was a <a href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/motorcyclist-struck-by-bx28-mta-bus-in-bedford-park\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">delivery driver on his way home<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Once Peralta turned, he drove west against traffic while an MTA bus, operated by a 30-year-old female driver, was traveling east on the same road. He then collided with the bus\u2019 front driver-side corner and was flung from his bike.<\/p>\n<p>Peralta suffered severe head trauma, cops said. Emergency services personnel then rushed him to St. Barnabas Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.\n<\/p>\n<p>None of the 20 passengers aboard the bus reported injuries, according to police. The driver remained at the scene.\n<\/p>\n<p>Police have yet to make an arrest and the NYPD\u2019s Highway District Collision Investigation Squad continues to investigate.\n<\/p>\n<p>When reached for comment MTA spokespeople referred amNewYork to the NYPD.\n<\/p>\n<p>There have been two crashes and two injuries along the same stretch of West Mosholu Parkway South over the past year, according to data <a href=\"https:\/\/crashmapper.org\/#\/?cfat=true&amp;cinj=true&amp;endDate=2026-03&amp;geo=citywide&amp;identifier=&amp;lat=40.878915777787945&amp;lng=-73.88639330863953&amp;lngLats=%255B%255D&amp;mfat=true&amp;minj=true&amp;noInjFat=false&amp;pfat=true&amp;pinj=true&amp;startDate=2025-03&amp;vbicycle=true&amp;vbusvan=true&amp;vcar=true&amp;vmotorcycle=true&amp;vother=true&amp;vscooter=true&amp;vsuv=true&amp;vtruck=true&amp;zoom=17\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">compiled by Crashmapper<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A view of West Mosholu Parkway South, near Jerome Avenue, where a motorcycle driver died after smashing into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,41431,46572,67222,141,9,24,63,103,76629,129,131,130,76630],"class_list":{"0":"post-191475","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-crashmapper","10":"tag-delivery-driver","11":"tag-jerome-avenue","12":"tag-mta","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-nypd","17":"tag-nypds-highway-district-collision-investigation-squad","18":"tag-the-bronx","19":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","20":"tag-the-bronx-news","21":"tag-west-mosholu-parkway-south"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}