A yellow cab driver was charged with criminally negligent homicide in the death of a Queens scooter rider, after a collision that occurred last year, police announced in May. Mohammad Bhuiyan, 48, was charged with homicide and a failure to obey a traffic device in the Dec. 1 death of Antonios Spyropoulos.
Spyropoulos, 59, was heading west along Northern Blvd. near 41st Ave. in Long Island City on his Yamaha XMAX 300 scooter around 11:50pm on. Nov. 27, 2023, when he collided head-on with Bhuiyan, who was driving a Toyota Rav4 yellow taxi.
Bhuiyan was driving east in a westbound lane before he struck Spropoulos, police said. Spropoulos, of Astoria, was thrown to the roadway and suffered severe head and body trauma. Medics rushed him to Bellevue Hospital, where he died four days after the crash. Following an investigation, police arrested and charged Bhuiyan.
Source: The Daily News
