Chilling moment an NYPD car rams a dirt bike killing the driver and injuring the passenger in incident which cops maintain was an accident



Shocking video footage just released shows a young man being killed after his dirt bike was rammed by the NYPD.



Eddie Fernandez, 28, was killed and passenger Adalberto (Adam) Gonzalez, 27, injured after they were struck from behind by a police car during a chase in The Bronx, New York last August.



Authorities say the two were illegally riding a dirt bike on city streets and they were attempting to pull them over. The crash was an incident say the police.

Surveillance footage shows Gonzalez running down the sidewalk as Fernandez slows his bike down to let him hop on

As the bike make it to the corner Gonzalez, also pictured right, manages to jump on to the back

Gonzalez, who survived the crash, says the squad car hit them intentionally. Footage shows him being hit twice by the cops.



The surveillance footage shows Gonzalez sitting on the dirt bike when the police first notice him and then swerve at him, knocking him off the bike.

He is then seen running and jumped on to the back of Fernandez’s bike. Seconds later they are rammed from behind by the cops and knocked into a light pole. Fernandez died in the street.

Gonzalez is facing charges of resisting arrest and reckless endangerment when his trial begins in Bronx Criminal Court.

His trial has already been delayed twice, while his attorney requested access to the surveillance video of the accident.



Gonzalez’s defense attorney, Cesar Gonzalez, plans to use the video in his client’s defense.

Just second later - and shown from a different camera - the bike is rammed by the police vehicle and Fernandez is killed

In this footage Gonzalez's bike is circled as the police drive down the street towards him, before knocking him from his bike

He says a grand jury should have been convened to charge the officer driving with a crime. He told the New York Post that the police car ‘looks like a Scud missile’ in the footage.

Gonzalez's mother is also demanding justice. 'I want this cop to tell me why was my son struck twice, why?' she told ABC7 News .



The police maintain that the crash was accidental.



'Upon an extensive review of the evidence and circumstances of the incident, it was our determination that a sustainable criminal case could not be brought,' said spokesman Steve Reed.

Video: Cops hit dirt bikers, biker says it was on purpose

