E-bike rider dies after Crown Heights collision with Jeep driver
A 41-year-old e-bike rider died at Kings County Hospital after he and a Jeep driver making a left turn collided at Eastern Parkway and Schenectady Avenue in Crown Heights, according to police accounts and city crash records.
What We Know
At Eastern Parkway and Schenectady Avenue in Crown Heights, a 41-year-old man riding a Sur-Ron Light Bee LBX e-bike and a Jeep driver making a left turn collided around 8 p.m. on Sept. 3, 2023. Police accounts published by the Daily News and amNY said EMS took the rider to Kings County Hospital, where he died. City crash records identify unsafe speed for the e-bike rider; amNY reported the Jeep driver remained at the scene, received a field sobriety test, and had not been charged. The sources agree on the left-turn collision but differ on the Jeep driver's travel direction: amNY described a westbound driver turning left, while the city vehicle record lists the driver traveling south while making a left turn.
A left-turn collision on Eastern Parkway
The crash was recorded at 8:01 p.m. on Sept. 3, 2023, at Eastern Parkway and Schenectady Avenue. City records identify the person killed as a 41-year-old male rider of a Sur-Ron Light Bee LBX e-bike, and press accounts said paramedics took him to Kings County Hospital, where he died.
Police accounts published by the Daily News and amNY described a collision between the e-bike rider and a driver in a Jeep. amNY said the rider was traveling east and the Jeep driver was traveling west while trying to turn left onto Schenectady Avenue; the city vehicle record also lists a left turn but lists the Jeep driver's travel direction as south.
The crash happened on a high-injury Eastern Parkway corridor
The collision occurred at Eastern Parkway and Schenectady Avenue in Brooklyn. CrashCountNYC's Crash Finder counts 2,111 crashes, 1,422 injuries, 85 serious injuries and 7 deaths on Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn since 2022, placing this intersection on a corridor with repeated injury and fatal outcomes.
The rider died; the Jeep driver stayed at the scene
City records identify the person killed as a 41-year-old male e-bike rider. The Daily News reported that the Jeep driver remained at the scene and that the NYPD Collision Investigation Squad was investigating.
amNY reported that police gave the Jeep driver a field sobriety test and that no one had been charged at the time of publication.
Records and news accounts describe a Jeep SUV and an e-bike
City records list a 2019 Jeep SUV with two occupants and a Sur-Ron Light Bee LBX e-bike with one rider. The Daily News described the Jeep as white, while amNY described the rider's vehicle as a Sur-Ron Light Bee electric dirt bike.
Speed was recorded as a contributing factor
City crash records list unsafe speed as a contributing factor for the e-bike rider. Separately, amNY reported that the Jeep's license plate had received 46 camera-issued speeding tickets since 2016 and five red-light camera tickets since 2013, while also reporting that no one had been charged after this crash.