Horrific Crash Kills 2 & Hurts 2
13 days ago a horrific crash occurred at the intersection of Hillside Avenue & 168th Place. The accident which involved a car & a MTA Long Island Bus killed 2 people while hurting 2 others. Here is an article about the accident courtesy of Newsday:
NEW YORK – A Queens Village man, driving the car he received just days ago as a Christmas present, was killed along with his passenger when the car collided with a bus early Sunday morning.
Christopher Boyd, 23, and his passenger, 25-year-old Eric Richmond of Queens, were returning home from a Brooklyn birthday party in Boyd’s 1992 Ford Thunderbird. Boyd was driving east on Hillside Avenue at about 4:15 a.m. when the vehicle lost control, police said.
The Thunderbird swung sideways into the path of an N6 Long Island Bus driving west on Hillside Avenue at 168th Place, police said. A police spokesman said Boyd’s vehicle might have been speeding at the time of the incident.
Both Boyd and Richmond were pronounced dead at the scene. The 39-year-old bus driver and one of his passengers, a 24-year-old man, suffered minor injuries and were taken to Mary Immaculate Hospital in Jamaica. The driver has since been released, said Aaron Donovan, an MTA spokesman. Donovan could not say how long the driver has been working for the MTA.
According to motor-vehicle records, Boyd had a valid license at the time of the crash. His license was suspended after he failed to pay a fine, but it was reinstated in 2005, according to the records.
Reached at her Maine home, Boyd’s stepmother, Wendi Boyd, described him as a “bright young man” who “loved life.”
“He loved sports, basketball,” said Boyd. “He was an expert swimmer.”
She said her stepson, whom she had raised since he was 4 years old, moved from Maine to New York after he graduated high school so he could pursue training as an automotive mechanic.
The car he and Richmond were riding in, Wendi Boyd said, was a Christmas gift for him from her and his father, Glenn Boyd.
“He was so happy with the car,” she said through tears. “We just picked it out because he’s been wanting a car and we figured he’s been doing so well and working and it was going to be something good for him to have.”
In Queens, Yvette Richmond remembered her son as a faithful young man who like Boyd aspired to become an automotive mechanic and was an avid collector of Matchbox toy cars.
“He liked cars from the day he was born,” the grieving mother said of Eric Richmond. “He always had a car in his hand.”
Richmond said her son also was a born-again Christian who spent every Sunday with his family at Good Tidings Gospel Chapel in Brooklyn.
Lloyd Allwood, an elder at the church, said Eric Richmond was a former Marine who proudly attended the church in his uniform while on leave.
The young man was popular with the church’s young people, Allwood said, and was planning on attending a camp retreat in February with them.
“He had a lot of friends come here this morning, and most of the young people were crying,” Allwood said.
Yvette Richmond said her the two men knew each other for years, and described the pair as “very good friends.”
The two had attended a birthday party for Eric Richmond’s nephew in Brooklyn before they were killed, she said.
Yvette Richmond said she wasn’t told anything more about the collision.
“They were on their way home,” she said sadly.
My condolences to the family & friends of the 2 people who died. I also wish nothing but the best for the bus driver & his passenger who was hurt in the accident.
xoxo Transit Blogger
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