Box truck driver fatally hit Citi Bike rider in Gowanus
A box truck driver hit a 37-year-old woman riding a Citi Bike near 2nd Avenue and 9th Street in Brooklyn at about 7:20 a.m. on Jan. 10, 2023, and she died at the scene, according to police reporting and city crash records.
What We Know
A box truck driver hit a 37-year-old woman riding a Citi Bike near 2nd Avenue and 9th Street in Gowanus on the morning of Jan. 10, 2023. The city crash record places the crash at 7:20 a.m. and records one bicyclist killed. It lists a 2022 box truck and an e-bike, both traveling east and going straight before the crash. amNY, citing police, reported that the woman was pronounced dead at the scene and that the truck driver remained there. Police said no arrests had been made and that they did not suspect criminality while the investigation was pending.
Morning crash in Gowanus
The city crash record places the fatal crash at 7:20 a.m. on Jan. 10, 2023, at 9 Street and 2 Avenue in Brooklyn. It records one bicyclist killed and no other injuries.
amNY reported, citing police, that a box truck driver hit a 37-year-old woman while she was riding a Citi Bike in the area. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
9th Street has a record of serious harm
The crash happened at 9th Street and 2nd Avenue in Brooklyn, on the 9th Street corridor. CrashCountNYC Crash Finder counted 602 crashes, 322 injuries, 23 serious injuries and 2 deaths on 9th Street in Brooklyn from 2022 through June 1, 2026.
Police said the driver stayed at the scene
amNY reported that the box truck driver remained at the scene. Police told the outlet no arrests had been made and that they did not suspect criminality while the investigation was pending.