20-year-old rider dies after crash with parked truck in Gravesend.
Luis Ramos-Cumez, 20, died in a crash involving a parked box truck on 86th Street in Gravesend at 4:09 a.m. on April 21, 2022; police later described the truck as double-parked.
Location reported in Open Data.
What We Know
Police told Brooklyn Paper that Ramos-Cumez was riding north with a passenger when he collided with the back of a parked box truck; the official record instead lists westward travel for his e-bike. Reports call the ridden vehicle an e-scooter or moped, while the official record classifies it as an e-bike; Streetsblog reported that an NYPD spokesperson later identified it as a Moto TTX moped. Police also described the truck as double-parked and unoccupied, though the official record lists one occupant.
Accounts differ on direction and vehicle description.
Brooklyn Paper, citing police, reported that Ramos-Cumez was riding north on 86th Street with a passenger when he collided with the back of a parked box truck. The official record lists westward travel for the e-bike linked to the fatality.
Reports describe the ridden vehicle differently: Brooklyn Paper called it an e-scooter, the Daily News called it an electric moped, and Streetsblog reported that an NYPD spokesperson later identified it as a Moto TTX moped. The official record classifies it as an e-bike.
Ramos-Cumez lived in Bensonhurst.
The Daily News identified Ramos-Cumez, 20, as a Bensonhurst resident and reported that he died at the scene. His 35-year-old passenger was taken to NYU Langone Hospital Brooklyn with a head injury and was in serious but stable condition, according to the Daily News and Brooklyn Paper.
The crash was near West 11th Street.
The Daily News placed the crash on 86th Street near West 11th Street in Gravesend, two doors down from L&B Spumoni Gardens. Brooklyn Paper placed the truck outside the neighboring Light of Baku and reported that scene photographs showed it partly in the unprotected bike lane.
Police had not disclosed whether the truck driver was ticketed.
Streetsblog reported that an NYPD spokesperson would not say whether the truck driver had been ticketed. Brooklyn Paper reported that the crash remained under investigation. Police also described the truck as unoccupied, while the official record lists one occupant.