{"id":52029,"date":"2017-11-13T04:56:25","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T04:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=52029"},"modified":"2017-11-13T04:56:25","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T04:56:25","slug":"n-j-cab-driver-struck-head-hockey-stick-dies-n-y-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/n-j-cab-driver-struck-head-hockey-stick-dies-n-y-crash.html","title":{"rendered":"N.J. cab driver struck in head with hockey stick, dies in N.Y. crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

N.J. cab driver struck in head with hockey stick, dies in N.Y. crash<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

N.J. cab driver struck in head with hockey stick, dies in N.Y. crash:- A New Jersey cab driver fatally crashed his car Saturday night in New York City after a pedestrian struck him in the head with a hockey stick, police said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Randolph Tolk, 68, of West New York, died at Lenox Hill Hospital after he struck a center divider just before midnight at West and Horatio streets in New York, authorities said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Minutes before the crash, Tolk got into an altercation with the pedestrian, Kohji Kosugi, 39, of Manhattan, at West 20th Street and 11th Avenue in Chelsea, police said.<\/span><\/p>\n

There, Kosugi struck Tolk over the head with a hockey stick then fled on foot, authorities said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kosugi was arrested Sunday morning and charged with manslaughter, New York police said.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a statement, Uber said Tolk had been one of its drivers for a few years and was not on a trip during the incident. He was licensed with the NYC Taxi & Limousine Commission, the ride-sharing company said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fernando Mateo, union head of the New York State Federation of Taxi Drivers, had initially told reporters Tolk was not licensed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Before Tolk crashed, the assailant hit him on the head with a hockey stick, knocked him to the ground and stepped on his chest before he could get up, Mateo said. He speculated that Tolk suffered a concussion and fainted while driving down the road.<\/span><\/p>\n

“If he wouldn’t have gotten hit, he wouldn’t have died,” Mateo said during a press conference posted online by ABC7. “I believe that that young man that killed him, or that beat him and caused his death, deserves to go to jail for a very long time.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Before Kosugi was arrested, the federation of taxi drivers offered a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of Tolk’s assailant.<\/span><\/p>\n

The victim’s 31-year-old son, Andrew Tolk, told The New York Times that while his father maintained a Post Office box in West New York, he had been living with family in Brooklyn.<\/span><\/p>\n

His son told the New York Daily News that Tolk was a father of two and a grandfather of three young children.<\/span><\/p>\n

“He would put everyone else before himself,” Andrew Tolk told the Daily News. “I’m numb.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.nj.com\/hudson\/index.ssf\/2017\/11\/nj_cab_driver_dies_in_crash_after_struck_with_hock.html<\/span><\/p>\n

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