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Police ID Motorcyclist Killed in Central Park Crash

August 17, 2011 12:02pm | Updated August 17, 2011 5:55pm
Police say a 27-year-old motorcyclist was killed near West 86th Street and Central Park West early Wednesday morning after he collided head-on with a Lincoln Town Car.
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DNAinfo/Leslie Albrecht

CENTRAL PARK — Police have identified the motorcyclist killed early Wednesday in Central Park as 27-year-old Jeremy Spotts of Astoria, Queens.

Spotts was killed after slamming head-on into a Lincoln Town Car about 5:14 a.m., police said. He was headed westbound on the 86th Street transverse, near Central Park West, when he crossed over the center line and collided with the eastbound Town Car, a police spokesman said.

Spotts, who was driving a 2009 Suzuki, was taken by ambulance to Lenox Hill Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The Town Car driver wasn't injured, police said.

No criminality is suspected in the incident, according to police.

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