Police said Mota lived less than a half-mile from the crash site. The 21-year-old passenger, also a man who was taken to the same hospital, sustained multiple fractures to his left arm and leg.

Eleven-year-old Jeffrey Mota heard sound for the first time last week. He became overwhelmed and scared. Jeffrey's father, Joel Mota, says there will be challenges getting his son used to hearing ...

Joel Mota was zipping south on Third Ave. in Bay Ridge when he crashed into the passenger-side door of a 2013 Acura TSX going west on 67th St. about 4:45 a.m. on Saturday, cops said.

That's when Joel Mota and his wife, Rosie, adopted Jeffrey from China. Jeffrey was found abandoned at a bus station in 2008. He can't hear or talk and was never taught sign language.

All kidding aside, there's a back-story to Jeffrey's gratitude. Joel and his late wife, Rosie, adopted Jeffrey in 2014. He was an orphan, abandoned at a subway station in China.