Driver fled after cyclist was fatally hurt in Soundview
A Jeep SUV driver blew through traffic control on Metcalf Avenue and hit a 21-year-old e-bike rider. His body was thrown, his bike demolished. A young man dead for someone’s shortcut.
What We Know
A 21-year-old man riding an e-bike north on Metcalf Avenue near East 172nd Street in the Bronx was killed when a Jeep SUV driver going west hit him on a Sunday afternoon. According to the police report, officers recorded “Traffic Control Disregarded” as a contributing factor. The rider was ejected, suffered fatal injuries to his entire body, and died at the scene. The crash also damaged two parked vehicles.
What police and the crash record say
The crash happened on July 3, 2022, just before 3 p.m. The city record places it at Metcalf Avenue and East 172nd Street and records one bicyclist killed.
Metcalf Avenue has a recent record of serious harm
The fatal crash occurred at Metcalf Avenue and East 172nd Street in the Bronx, near the Soundview location described by police in press accounts.
CrashCountNYC’s street context for Metcalf Avenue shows 146 crashes, 74 injuries, 4 serious injuries and 2 deaths from 2022 through June 1, 2026.
The rider died at Jacobi Medical Center
The city record identifies the person killed as a 21-year-old male e-bike rider. Police told reporters the cyclist was taken to Jacobi Medical Center, where he died from his injuries.
A neighbor quoted by the Daily News said the rider may have been a delivery person and said the driver did not check on him after the crash.
The record lists an e-bike, a Jeep, and two parked vehicles
The city record lists a Sky Bike 10 e-bike traveling north and a 2015 Jeep SUV whose licensed female driver was traveling west and going straight ahead. It also lists a parked 2021 Hyundai SUV and a parked 2000 Honda sedan.
Press accounts described the Jeep as white. Police said the driver got into another vehicle after leaving the Jeep; the Daily News described that second vehicle as another white SUV.
Traffic control disregard was recorded as a factor
The city crash record lists traffic control disregarded as a contributing factor for the Jeep driver.
Police were searching for the driver that night
Both articles reported on July 3 that police were still looking for the woman who had been driving the Jeep. The Post said she remained at large Sunday night, and the Daily News said police continued to search for her.