E-bike rider dies after Washington Heights tractor-trailer collision
A male e-bike rider was killed on West 181st Street just before 4 a.m. on June 1, 2024, and police told amNewYork that Jose Luis Zamora Rodriguez was riding east when he collided with the rear lift gate of a double-parked tractor-trailer.
What We Know
Just before 4 a.m. on June 1, 2024, an e-bike rider traveling east on West 181st Street in Washington Heights was killed in a collision involving a parked diesel tractor-trailer. amNewYork, citing police, identified the rider as Jose Luis Zamora Rodriguez of the Bronx and reported that he collided with the rear lift gate of a double-parked tractor-trailer near Fort Washington Avenue. The city crash record lists one cyclist killed, an e-bike traveling straight ahead, a tractor-trailer parked facing east, and driver inattention or distraction as a contributing factor. The official record lists the rider as 37; amNewYork reported he was 38.
What happened before dawn on West 181st Street
The crash was recorded at 3:57 a.m. on June 1, 2024, on West 181st Street in Washington Heights. City data lists one cyclist killed and no other injuries.
amNewYork reported that police said Jose Luis Zamora Rodriguez was riding eastbound when he collided with the rear lift gate of a double-parked tractor-trailer near Fort Washington Avenue. He was taken to Harlem Hospital, where he could not be saved.
The rider who died
amNewYork identified the e-bike rider as Jose Luis Zamora Rodriguez of Mount Eden in the Bronx. The official crash record lists the bicyclist as a 37-year-old man; amNewYork reported he was 38.
Contributing factor in the city record
The city crash record lists driver inattention or distraction as a contributing factor for the e-bike rider. amNewYork’s police account focused on the rider’s eastbound travel and the tractor-trailer’s double-parked position.
Part of a broader toll
amNewYork reported that Zamora Rodriguez was the 10th cyclist to die on New York City streets in 2024, and that 92 people had died in city traffic collisions by that point in the year, citing NYPD statistics.
Where
West 181st St