Road-rage grandpa runs down motorcyclist on LIE by pinning him against guardrail with pickup truck: cops
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 29-year-old Bronx man Ibis Alex Baez 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 victim crushed against the metal guardrail, where he was pronounced dead, cops said.
Baez’s grieving brother-in-law, Goldwynn Redding, told The Post on Monday that the victim had “a gentle spirit” and was never the type to start a fight.
“He never wanted to go out and initiate any kind of confrontation with anybody,” Redding said of Baez, who was an HVAC installer on Long Island driving to a job at the time.
“He was getting ready to go back down to Florida in May for a fishing trip,” Redding said of his tragic kin.
“He was working to move from New York to settle in Florida to open up his own business just so he could essentially just stay on the water as much as possible.”
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.
Redding told The Post, “We’re just going to let the legal system play out.”
He added that Baez, who had four sisters and a brother, was a known lover of fishing and would pull over to the side of the road if he saw a good body of water.
