{"id":252348,"date":"2026-06-02T16:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T16:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/252348\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T16:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T16:14:13","slug":"two-nyc-motorcyclists-die-in-separate-harley-davidson-crashes-5-hours-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/252348\/","title":{"rendered":"Two NYC motorcyclists die in separate Harley-Davidson crashes 5 hours apart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two men riding Harley-Davidson motorcycles died <a href=\"https:\/\/data.cityofnewyork.us\/Public-Safety\/Motor-Vehicle-Collisions-Crashes\/h9gi-nx95\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in separate <\/a>crashes in Manhattan and Staten Island during a five-hour span, police said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>A 48-year-old man riding a 2007 Harley-Davidson uptown in the left lane of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/04\/16\/man-74-crossing-manhattans-fdr-drive-fatally-struck-by-two-drivers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manhattan\u2019s FDR Drive<\/a> failed to navigate a curve and hit a divider near E. 72nd St. on the Upper East Side about 11:55 p.m. Monday, police said.<\/p>\n<p>He was thrown off his motorcycle and then run over by the driver of a passing black Cadillac Escalade, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The motorcyclist died at the scene.\u00a0The 53-year-old man behind the wheel of the Escalade remained at the scene and faced no immediate charges.<\/p>\n<p>Less than five hours later on Staten Island, a 22-year-old man was riding a Harley-Davidson on Armstrong Ave. in Great Kills when he got into a head-on collision with the driver of a Ford Fusion near Arthur Kill Road.<\/p>\n<p>The 54-year-old man driving the Ford was turning left onto Armstrong Ave. when the 4:30 a.m. crash occurred.<\/p>\n<p>The motorcyclist was thrown from his ride and suffered a massive head injury.<\/p>\n<p>Medics rushed him to <a href=\"https:\/\/siuh.northwell.edu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Staten Island University Hospital North<\/a>, where he died.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the Ford Fusion remained at the scene and was not immediately charged.<\/p>\n<p>The names of the two victims were not immediately released.<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD Collision Investigation Squad continues to investigate both crashes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men riding Harley-Davidson motorcycles died in separate crashes in Manhattan and Staten Island during a five-hour span,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,75,9,24,264,12,63,261,134,136,135,265],"class_list":["post-252348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-manhattan","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252348","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=252348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}