Nisha Atkinson was arrested and is facing several charges<\/a>, including reckless driving, reckless endangerment and improper licensing.<\/p>\nOne of the victims, 58-year-old Mr. Thompson, said people had been enjoying food, music and activities in the park before the crash happened.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt had food, they had music, they had different activities,\u201d Mr. Thompson said.<\/p>\n
He said the DJ was wrapping up and telling the crowd about other summer events when the motorcycle suddenly came through.<\/p>\n
\u201cOut of nowhere, somebody just came through with the three-wheeler,\u201d Mr. Thompson said. \u201cI really didn\u2019t see much because it happened so fast.\u201d<\/p>\n
Video from the scene shows the motorcycle with a chair wedged under the front wheel after the crash.<\/p>\n
Mr. Thompson said he hit the ground and did not immediately realize what had happened.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen all the smoke was basically clear, it was just a very chaotic scene with blood,\u201d Mr. Thompson said.<\/p>\n
He said people rushed to help the injured. Mr. Thompson escaped with minor cuts, bruises, scrapes and a sprained ankle, but said his friend was seriously hurt.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you see somebody that you care about on the ground and they\u2019re leaking basically profusely from their head, it\u2019s like, you know, my injury was very minute compared to his, so I was worried about my friend,\u201d Mr. Thompson said.<\/p>\n
Police have not said what caused Atkinson to lose control of the motorcycle. The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is Brooklyn, so things happen,\u201d Mr. Thompson said. \u201cI\u2019m just grateful that there was no casualties to anybody.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What started as a summer get-together at Commodore Barry Park turned chaotic Sunday evening when police say a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-281733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281733","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=281733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}