NYPD: Two Dead in Queensboro Bridge Scooter-Bike Crash
Police said the bridge’s bike-only lane was redesigned last year after safety complaints and now carries bikes, e-bikes and mopeds.
- On Thursday, a 39-year-old motorized scooter operator and a 35-year-old cyclist died in a head-on collision on the Queensboro Bridge bike lane, both pronounced dead at New York-Presbyterian Hospital Queens.
- The crash occurred on the bridge's northern outer roadway, designated exclusively for bikes since May of last year, replacing an 11-foot shared lane following years of advocacy by street safety activists.
- Long Island City resident Andrew Woolward described the bicycle as "practically broken in half," while Transportation Alternatives identified the scooter as an illegal device capable of reaching 53 mph.
- Ben Furnas of Transportation Alternatives and Roz Gianutsos of Families for Safe Streets urged the City Council to pass "Ride Safe, Ride Right" legislation, or Intro 244, banning devices exceeding 20 mph.
- Advocates emphasize that city infrastructure was never built for devices moving at high speeds in congested zones like the Queensboro Bridge, as the NYPD Collision Investigation Squad continues its inquiry.
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2 dead after e-scooter crashes into bike on New York City bridge
Cyclists ride on the Queensboro Bridge on May 13, 2020 in New York City. (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — Two people died in a collision between a rider on an electronic scooter and another on a bike on the bike path during the morning commute on a New York City bridge on Thursday. Francis del Valle, 39, who was operating the scooter, and Dmytro Stechenko, 35, who was on a pedal bike, were heading in opposite directions on the Q…
Motorized scooter rider, bicyclist killed in head-on Queensboro Bridge crash during NYC morning rush: cops
A 39-year-old man was riding the stand-up scooter west in the bike lane when he rammed into the bicyclist, a 35-year-old man pedaling in the opposite direction, cops said.
Queensboro Bridge crash leaves e-scooter and bike riders dead; advocates demand safety reform
A cyclist and the operator of a motorized scooter are both dead after the two crashed into one another in the Queensboro Bridge bike lane early Thursday morning, cops say. Police said they received a call at 8:21 a.m. on May 28 that the 39-year-old male motorized scooter operator collided with the 35-year-old cyclist on the bridge connecting Manhattan and Queens. The scooter rider was traveling eastbound, and the cyclist was going west at the ti…
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