Noyack teen riding dirt bike collides with car, police say
A teen from Noyack was airlifted to Stony Brook University Hospital with serious injuries after the unlicensed dirt bike he was driving illegally on an unlighted main road collided with a car Monday, Southampton Town police said.
The crash occurred on Noyack Road at 5:37 p.m.
Police did not release the identity of the dirt bike rider, 15, and only identified the other driver, a man, 24, from Montauk. Police said that driver was not injured in the crash.
It is illegal to drive a dirt bike on the street. The bike, an off-road motorcycle, not only was unregistered, police said, it had no headlights. The road was described by police as being “a dark, unlighted road.”
The dirt bike collided with a Honda sedan that was making a left turn off Noyack Road.
No summonses were issued.
The accident remains under investigation.
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