Bronx Motorcyclist Dies In BQE Crash In Cobble Hill, Cops Say

COBBLE HILL, BROOKLYN — A motorcyclist from the Bronx died late Monday night when he was thrown from his bike on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, police said.

Police found Ramon Aguilar Jr., 40, lying unconscious in the road near Exit 27, where the highway exits to Atlantic Avenue, just before midnight. He had been speeding his 2010 Yamaha R1 motorcycle eastbound on the highway just moments before when he lots control and was thrown from the bike onto the highway's shoulder, police said.

Emergency responders brought Aguilar to NYU Langone Cobble Hill Hospital, but he was pronounced dead. Aguilar had severe trauma to his body from the crash, police said.

Records show that he lived on Decatur Avenue in the Bronx.

This is the second fatal crash on the highway in the last week.

Last Thursday, a New Jersey man also died when he was thrown from his bike just a few exits away near Flushing Avenue.

That man, Daniel Costa of Elizabeth, N.J., ended up in the middle lane of traffic, where he was hit by a car that drove away without stopping, according to the NYPD Highway District's Collision Investigation Squad.

Police said they arrived to find Costa, who was 37 years old, unconscious and unresponsive in the middle of the road and pronounced him dead on the scene.

There are no arrests in either case and the investigations remain ongoing, police said.