The state Attorney General’s office is conducting a preliminary look at an incident where a man died in the Bronx after a motorist fled a police car stop and crashed into a parked tractor-trailer, officials said.
Jose Matos, 31, of the Bronx was one of two passengers in a Honda that was briefly stopped by police on Riverside Drive in Upper Manhattan at about 10:15 p.m. Wednesday.
The motorist hit the gas and drove away from cops roughly nine miles east into the Bronx. The Honda then crashed into a parked, unoccupied tractor-trailer at Drake St. and Randall Ave. in Clason Point.
Matos was seriously injured. Medics took him to Jacobi Medical Center in critical condition where he died.
The second passenger, a 29-year-old man, was critically injured and taken to Lincoln Hospital.
In a statement, the NYPD said police lost track of the car after it fled the car stop and later found it at the crash site.
The driver of the Honda fled on foot and is being sought.
An NYPD investigation is also continuing. The department did not comment further on the circumstances of the incident.
Under a governor’s executive order, the AG’s office investigates all police-involved deaths.