Rider dies weeks after collision with pedestrian in Harlem
Jermaine Capers, 37, died three weeks after he collided with an 18-year-old woman in a crosswalk at Eighth Avenue and West 116th Street in Harlem on July 17, 2022.
Location reported in Open Data.
What We Know
Jermaine Capers, 37, was riding north on Eighth Avenue near West 116th Street at 4:44 p.m. on July 17, 2022, when he collided with an 18-year-old woman in a crosswalk. Police said Capers was thrown from his dirt bike and suffered a head injury. The woman suffered minor injuries, and both were taken to a hospital. Capers died on August 8, more than three weeks after the crash. The Daily News placed the collision on Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard, but Patch corrected that police-supplied location to Eighth Avenue, also known there as Frederick Douglass Boulevard, matching the city record.
The collision and its aftermath
Capers was riding a dirt bike north on Eighth Avenue when he collided with a woman crossing West 116th Street within the crosswalk. Police said Capers was thrown from the bike and suffered a head injury. The 18-year-old woman suffered minor injuries.
Medics took both to a hospital. Capers died there on August 8, more than three weeks after the July 17 collision.
The intersection and a corrected street name
The city record places the collision at Eighth Avenue and West 116th Street. Patch identifies that stretch of Eighth Avenue as Frederick Douglass Boulevard and says police initially called it Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard, the name used in the Daily News account.
Patch reported city data showing 52 people injured at the intersection since 2012, including 18 pedestrians, nine cyclists and 25 drivers.
An East Harlem resident
Police identified the rider as Jermaine Capers, 37. According to police cited by Patch, he lived at the Wagner Houses in East Harlem.