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1 hour agoBrooklyn Man Killed in Cypress Hills Scooter Crash
Juan Quishpe died from severe head trauma after crashing his electric scooter into a concrete barrier in Cypress Hills.
"We only have one car," the victim's tearful wife, a public school teacher, said. "He didn't want a second car. He loved that scooter. He went to work on it. The only thing he didn't use it for was to transport the kids." "He had it for a while," she added. "He loved it. I was like, 'We need a second car. We have two kids now.' And he's like, 'We don't need it.'"
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