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Motorcyclist Dead After Losing Control on Expressway in Maspeth: NYPD

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Nov. 23, 2020 By Christian Murray

A 43-year-old man is dead after crashing his motorcycle into a guardrail near the entrance ramp to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in Maspeth early Sunday.

Justin Laurie was riding a 2017 Yamaha when he lost control at around 12:05 a.m. while traveling westbound on the Long Island Expressway, police said. He then crashed into a guardrail near the ramp onto the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.

EMS responded and transported Laurie, who is from Cobble Hill, to NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst where he was pronounced deceased.

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