Brentwood man, 19, dies in dirt bike crash, police said
A Brentwood man died after the dirt bike he was riding collided with a Jeep at an intersection in that community Friday night, police said.
Anthony Ayala, 19, was on a 2018 KTM dirt bike traveling south on Wicks Road when he collided with a 2016 Jeep Renegade traveling north on Crooked Hill Road, Suffolk County police said. The crash happened at 9:07 p.m.
Ayala, who police said was not wearing a helmet, was taken by ambulance to Southside Hospital in Bay Shore, where he was pronounced dead. The driver of the Jeep was not injured, and no criminality is suspected, police said.
Both vehicles were impounded for safety checks.
Detectives ask anyone with information on the crash to call the Third Squad at 631-854-8352.
'His sacrifice made a difference': Gold Star mother honors son's memory Army Pfc. Raheen Tyson Heighter, 22, of Bay Shore, was the first serviceman from Long Island killed in the Iraq War.
'His sacrifice made a difference': Gold Star mother honors son's memory Army Pfc. Raheen Tyson Heighter, 22, of Bay Shore, was the first serviceman from Long Island killed in the Iraq War.
