Port Washington Man, 22, Killed in Motorcycle Crash

By Timothy Bolger Posted on December 8, 2015

A 22-year-old Port Washington man was killed when he crashed his motorcycle head-on with an SUV in Atlantic Beach on Monday.

Nassau County police said Thomas Kraft was riding a Kawasaki eastbound on Park Street when he crossed into the westbound lanes and crashed head-on into a Mercedes-Benz SUV at 5:37 p.m.

The victim was pronounced dead at the scene.

The 55-year-old man driving the SUV and his female passenger were taken to a local hospital.

Homicide Squad detectives impounded the vehicles but found no apparent criminality.

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Timothy Bolger

Timothy Bolger is the Editor in Chief of the Long Island Press who’s been working to uncover unreported stories since shortly after it launched in 2003. When he’s not editing, getting hassled by The Man or fielding cold calls to the newsroom, he covers crime, general interest and political news in addition to reporting longer, sometimes investigative features. He won’t be happy until everyone is as pissed off as he is about how screwed up Lawn Guyland is.