Unlicensed Driver Arrested In Crash That Killed Beloved Inwood Dad: PD

INWOOD — An unlicensed driver was arrested Thursday nearly a month after a luxury car race down the Henry Hudson Parkway claimed the life of a beloved Inwood dad, according to police and reports.

Cary Brown, 28, faces a manslaughter charge in the crash that killed Joel Quintana, 42, near West 145th Street the night of Aug. 3, police said.

Quintana was riding his 2022 Honda GROM motorcycle downtown — the New York Daily News reports he was headed to work as a manager at the Upper East Side Loew's Hotel — when he was hit from behind by a speeding gray BMW, police said.

Quintana was thrown from the bike and hit by a black Mercedes Benz, also speeding police said.

The two cars raced away and although medics rushed Quintana to Harlem Hospital, they could not save his life, police said.

Quintana's sister Carolina Rodriguez told the Daily News he left behind a wife and six children, including a son whose last words to his father were, "Just be very careful please.”

“He promised him he was going to be careful,” Rodriguez told the News. between tears. “He was never one to drive crazy.”

Rodriguez reportedly said her brother was a hardworking family man deeply mourned by his family.

“[His] 6-year-old is very sad," she told the News. "He keeps asking for his dad.”

Brown, of Bushwick, was arrested in The Bronx and also charged with criminally negligent homicide, leaving the scene and aggravated unlicensed operator, police said.