The state Attorney General’s office is conducting a preliminary look at an incident where a passenger in a car that fled a police stop in Manhattan died in a collision nine miles away in the Bronx.
Jose Matos, 31, of the Bronx was one of two passengers in a Honda that was briefly stopped by police on Riverside Drive in Upper Manhattan at about 11:15 p.m. Wednesday.
The motorist hit the gas and drove away from cops. The Honda later crashed into a parked, unoccupied tractor-trailer at Drake St. and Randall Ave. in Clason Point, in the east Bronx.
Matos was seriously injured. Medics took him to Jacobi Medical Center in critical condition where he died.
The second passenger, a 29-year-old man, was critically injured and taken to Lincoln Hospital.
The driver of the Honda fled on foot and is being sought.
In a statement, the NYPD said police lost track of the car after it fled the car stop and later found it at the crash site.
An NYPD spokesperson said the investigation is being handled by the NYPD Highway Collision Investigation Squad and by the NYPD Force Investigations Division.
Under a governor’s executive order, the AG’s office investigates all police-involved deaths.
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