A road-rage grandpa killed a motorcyclist on the Long Island Expressway by pinning him against a guardrail with his pickup truck, authorities said.
Ford pickup driver Brian Noll, 64, of Scio in western New York, became embroiled in a dispute with a 29-year-old man on a green 2016 Kawasaki bike on the LIE’s service road by New Hyde Park Road in Nassau County around 2:14 p.m. Friday, according to police.
Noll deliberately swerved his 2022 truck into the motorcycle, leaving the unidentified victim crushed against the metal guardrail, where he was pronounced dead, cops said.
Noll, who had an uninjured 66-year-old woman in his passenger seat at the time, pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder over the weekend, according to News12.
In a statement to the outlet, his lawyer accused the motorcyclist of driving “in the most reckless of ways” and “took exception to something that my client did in his truck.
“He positioned his vehicle, his motorcycle, alongside the truck and then took his hand off the throttle of the motorcycle and attempted to break off the mirror of the truck in a rage,” the unnamed lawyer said.
“Thereby causing the truck to lose control while he lost control of the motorcycle because he took his hand [off] the throttle and caused the collision, it was a horrible accident.
“My client is a 64-year-old grandfather who is entire life working, living, going to church in Long Island is now in retirement, was coming back to see some family because he recently moved upstate when this motorcyclist was wreaking havoc on the roads and caused this accident,” the lawyer said.
