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A moped driver fleeing police crashed on a Brooklyn promenade as he was being chased by an NYPD SUV, a startling video posted online shows.
The video, recorded in Bay Ridge along the promenade fronting New York Harbor near the Verrazzano Bridge, shows the cop car dangerously close to the 17-year-old moped driver as the teen veered off onto a patch of grass and slammed into a metal barrier.
Wednesday’s crash took place around 5:20 p.m., said an NYPD spokesman, who said the breakneck pursuit and arrest was “under internal review.”
The officers had attempted to pull the moped over near Bensonhurst Park along Shore Parkway and Bay Parkway when the moped rider refused to stop and sped off, police said.
Cops pursued him west along the promenade between Bensonhurst and Bay Ridge, where he crashed. The teen later told NYPD Internal Affairs Bureau investigators that the police vehicle did not strike him, said a police official.
After the crash, the teen sprinted a few feet to an adjoining parking lot, the video shows. Two cops pursued him on foot, tackled him, and handcuffed him.