YONKERS –State Troopers are attributing a fatal motorcycle accident on Friday morning to speeding. The wreck occurred just before 1:00 a.m. Friday morning, August 13.
According to police officials, Troopers responded to a report of motorcycles racing on I-87 (NYS Thruway) northbound, in the city of Yonkers. Moments later, Troopers received an additional call that a motorcycle had crashed, just a half-mile away from where they were initially observed.
A preliminary investigation at the scene determined that 29-year-old Frank Mahouti, of Paramus, NJ, was operating a 2018 Ducati motorcycle northbound on I-87, in the area of mile marker 3.5, at a high rate of speed and failed to negotiate a curve in the roadway. The Ducati struck the guide rail on the east shoulder, causing Mahouti to be ejected from the motorcycle.
Mahouti suffered fatal injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene by the Westchester County Medical Examiner.
The crash remains under investigation.
