A Queens moped driver shared stories with a close childhood friend about his previous brushes with disaster on the road just a day before he died crashing into a highway divider Saturday evening.
Gregory Peterson chatted with his friend, Joshua White, on Friday, urging his pal to stay safe after a bike accident last week. The next day the 37-year-old dad was dead.
“I recently had a bike accident too, I have a scrape on my face from last week and he was like ‘Yo Josh, stay off the bike, relax man, take care of yourself,’” White recounted to the Daily News. “And then he showed me a picture of his bike accident too… We kind of just laughed it off and everything. We laughing and then he was like be careful, be careful.
“And then after this I never seen him again,” White said.
Peterson was headed east on the Nassau Expressway, near Lefferts Blvd. around 7:15 p.m. Saturday when he crashed into a divider on the expressway, according to police. He died at the scene.
White described Peterson as an experienced bike-rider since childhood. “We started off with GT, Mongoose, regular freestyle bikes but once the e-bikes started coming along, he gravitated towards that. The e-bikes are the trend,” White said.