Latisha Larrymore posted a provocative pic on Facebook in November in which she's lying atop her beloved powder blue Yamaha R6, her long toned legs laying across the handlebars.
She lost control of the bike and crashed it into a silver Chrysler minivan on Atlantic Ave. near Cleveland St. in East New York as she returned from a friend’s home about 4:30 a.m., shearing off her left leg, horrified witnesses and family members said.


“Her one leg was over there and the other was broken,” said 27-year-old Atiba Bailey, a passenger in the minivan. “She was just folded up in the fetal position like a baby. I just hope that girl is all right.”
Larrymore was speeding down Atlantic Ave., weaving through traffic, when she smashed into the back of the minivan as it turned onto the avenue from Ashford St., cops said.
"I could see her way back there,” said Bailey. “She cut in front of one car and then cut in front of another and then — boom!”
Larrymore flew off the bike, but somehow ended up getting run over by the minivan, stunned onlookers said. She also slammed into a parked pickup truck, a concrete wall and a pole.
“She was just trying to breathe,” Bailey said.
Her motorcycle exploded like a grenade from the collision, launching one wheel across the street and sending shattered pieces of wreckage down the block.
"When I looked behind me all I saw was pieces flying," Bailey said.
The minivan driver faced no immediate charges.

Larrymore was undergoing surgery at Brookdale University Hospital Saturday morning. Doctors told family members that, besides losing her left leg, she broke both arms, her right leg and several ribs and is in critical condition.
She also has bleeding on the brain, sibling Michelle Larrymore, 31, said.
"She's lucky to be alive,” Larrymore’s older sister told the News. “We are praying for the best."
On Facebook Larrymore, a former bouncer at a Queens night club described by family members as a “safe and responsible driver,” joked about her need for speed.
“I think I’ll scare you with the way I ride,” she told one Facebook follower.
On Friday night she showed up at her older sister’s home, complaining that her Yamaha wasn’t working right and asked her brother-in-law to take a look at it.
"She said that it felt funny and (my husband) was like 'then don't ride it,' but she still decided to ride it,” Michelle Larrymore said. “She shouldn’t have.”

Larrymore’s brother Robert Fields, 34, was visiting his newborn baby girl at Northshore University Hospital in Manhasset, L.I., when he got the call about Latisha.
“She has lost a limb but she's alive,” her sister Michelle Larrymore said. “We are happy for that.”
"The second she said 'Titi,' I knew something bad had happened," Fields said, using his sister's nickname. "She's so small but her heart is so big. She's very loved."
Fields said his sister was in a car accident roughly two years ago and suffered serious back injuries.
"She was still going to physical therapy for her back when this happened," he said. "There has to be more awareness about people riding bikes."
Despite her serious injuries, family members said they’re glad they’ll be able to see her again.
"My sister got a second chance and I'm just so happy that I get to have another word with her," Larrymore’s younger sister Shanice Blythe, 26, told the News holding back tears. "I don't know if I would be standing here right now if I got that call that she didn't make it."
“She has lost a limb but she's alive,” Michelle Larrymore added. “We are happy for that.”
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