A scooter rider died after a Brooklyn collision involving a Mercedes.
A 53-year-old driver in a Mercedes was involved in a collision with a 49-year-old scooter rider at Avenue L and East 17th Street in Brooklyn on Oct. 14, 2022; police told the Daily News that a fallen pole landed on the rider, and the official record counts one death and three injuries.
Location reported in Open Data.
What We Know
A 53-year-old driver in a Mercedes and a 49-year-old scooter rider collided at Avenue L and East 17th Street on Oct. 14, 2022. Police told the Daily News that the rider ran a red light, and the paper reported that the driver then hit a pole that fell onto the rider. The official record counts one death and three injuries.
Police described a chain reaction.
Police told the Daily News that the scooter rider was traveling north on East 17th Street and ran a red light as a Mercedes traveled west on Avenue L; the two collided. The newspaper reported that a driver in the Mercedes then hit a light pole and a low wall, and the pole fell onto the rider.
The official record gives the collision time as 2:02 p.m. The Daily News, citing police, reported an estimated time of about 2:10 p.m.
The crash happened beside Midwood Field.
The collision occurred at Avenue L and East 17th Street in Midwood, Brooklyn. The Daily News located the fallen pole at the northwest corner, beside the wall surrounding Midwood Field, an athletic field on the Edward R. Murrow High School campus.
Reports describe hospital transports differently.
The official record counts one death and three injuries. The Daily News reported that two Mercedes passengers were hospitalized, that the driver remained at the scene, and that police said there was no criminality.
El Diario, citing firefighters, reported that one person was taken to New York Community Hospital with potentially fatal injuries and three others were taken to Maimonides Hospital. It later reported that the scooter rider had died, but did not identify which hospital patient was the rider. The reports do not establish where the rider died.