Truck driver fatally hits Citi Bike rider on Upper East Side
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A truck driver hit 28-year-old Citi Bike rider Carling Mott at East 85th Street and Madison Avenue at 10:49 a.m. on July 26, 2022; the city record lists one cyclist killed, and news reports said the driver stayed at the scene.
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What We Know
A driver in a tractor-trailer hit 28-year-old Citi Bike rider Carling Mott near Madison Avenue on East 85th Street on July 26, 2022; the city recorded the crash at 10:49 a.m. and lists one cyclist killed. The New York Post reported that Mott and the driver were alongside each other at a red light, and that she fell after the light turned green before the driver hit her. Patch described her riding west when the driver hit her; CBS reported that police said she was riding against traffic. Patch said police later corrected that initial account and said she was traveling in the permitted direction. News reports said she was taken to Weill Cornell Medical Center, where she could not be saved, and the driver stayed at the scene.
Reports differed on how the crash unfolded.
The city recorded the crash at 10:49 a.m. on July 26, 2022, at East 85th Street and Madison Avenue, with one cyclist killed and no injuries recorded.
The official vehicle entries list the truck and bicycle as traveling west and going straight ahead. The New York Post reported that Mott and the driver were alongside each other at a red light, and that Mott fell after the light turned green before the driver hit her.
Patch described Mott riding west when the driver hit her. CBS reported that police said she was riding against traffic; Patch said police initially gave that description but later clarified that she was traveling in the permitted direction.
The crash happened on a residential Upper East Side block.
The city locates the crash at East 85th Street and Madison Avenue in Manhattan. Patch places it on East 85th between Madison and Park avenues, a mostly residential stretch that includes Regis High School and Park Avenue Christian Church.
Patch reported that East 85th Street is not on the city's official truck routes, while nearby East 86th Street is. The New York Post reported that a 2016 city proposal for painted bike lanes on East 85th and other Upper East Side streets drew opposition from residents and politicians.
Mott lived nearby in Yorkville.
The New York Post identified the rider as Carling Mott, 28, and reported that she lived less than a mile from the crash site in Yorkville. Patch reported that medics took her to Weill Cornell Medical Center, where doctors could not save her; the Post also said she was taken there and could not be saved.
Reports and the city record describe the truck differently.
The city record lists a gasoline tractor truck, make FRHT-TRUCK/BUS, model year 2020. The New York Post described it as a 2017 Great Dane tractor-trailer, while Patch and CBS also called it a tractor-trailer.
The driver stayed at the scene.
Patch, the New York Post and CBS reported that the driver stayed at the scene. The Post said the driver faced no criminal charges as of Wednesday evening, July 27, 2022, and CBS reported that police were investigating the cause.