Infiniti Driver Fatally Hits Scooter Rider in Bed-Stuy
A 21-year-old Infiniti driver traveling south on Marcus Garvey Boulevard T-boned an eastbound electric scooter rider at Decatur Street, police told reporters, and the official record lists the 26-year-old rider as the sole person killed.
What We Know
At about 4:27 a.m. on Aug. 6, 2023, the official record places a fatal crash at Marcus Garvey Boulevard and Decatur Street in Brooklyn. Police told reporters that a 21-year-old driver in a 2020 Infiniti sedan was traveling south on Marcus Garvey and T-boned an electric scooter rider traveling east on Decatur. The official record lists the rider, a 26-year-old male motorist on a motorscooter, as killed, with no other injuries recorded. The reports said medics took the rider to Kings County Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, and that the Infiniti driver and two passengers were not hurt. Police told the outlets the driver stayed at the scene and had not been charged while the investigation continued. The official record lists traffic-control disregard for both moving drivers and unsafe speed for the sedan driver; one early report said police had not yet determined right of way or speed
Early-morning impact at the intersection
The city crash record places the crash at 4:27 a.m. on Sunday, Aug. 6, 2023, at Marcus Garvey Boulevard and Decatur Street. Police told reporters that a 21-year-old driver in a 2020 Infiniti sedan was heading south on Marcus Garvey Boulevard when he T-boned an electric scooter rider heading east on Decatur Street.
The official record lists a southbound sedan, an eastbound motorscooter and a parked sedan as involved. It records the sedan driver and the motorscooter rider as going straight ahead before impact, and the parked sedan was damaged at the rear.
The rider died; the sedan occupants survived
The official record lists the person killed as a 26-year-old male motorist. The reviewed news reports said medics took the scooter rider to NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County with severe head and body trauma, where he was pronounced dead.
Police told reporters the 21-year-old Infiniti driver was not injured. Two passengers in the Infiniti were also not injured, according to the reports.
Traffic-control findings and unanswered questions
The official record lists traffic-control disregard for both moving drivers. In the vehicle-level data, it also lists unsafe speed for the sedan driver.
Brooklyn Paper reported the next day that police had not yet determined which road user had the right of way or how fast either was traveling at the time of the crash.
Marcus Garvey Boulevard has a long crash record
The crash happened at Marcus Garvey Boulevard and Decatur Street in Brooklyn, on a corridor tracked in CrashCountNYC's location context as Marcus Garvey Boulevard - Brooklyn.
From Jan. 1, 2022, through June 1, 2026, that corridor had 503 crashes, 293 injuries, 16 serious injuries and 2 deaths recorded in the Crash Finder location context.
Police said the driver stayed and no charges had been filed
Brooklyn Paper, citing police, reported that the Infiniti driver continued on Marcus Garvey Boulevard for a short distance, then stopped and remained at the scene.
Both reviewed reports said no charges had been filed as police continued to investigate.