Driver charged after Gowanus crash kills Mercedes driver
Police said Alexey Ivanov ran a red light in Gowanus; the city crash record lists unsafe speed in the Sept. 14 crash that killed Mercedes driver Arturo Alberto Baez Cordero.
What We Know
Police said 38-year-old Alexey Ivanov was driving north on Second Avenue just before 6:30 p.m. on Sept. 14, 2025, when he allegedly ran a red light at 9th Street and hit a westbound 2006 Mercedes driven by Arturo Alberto Baez Cordero. The impact pushed the Mercedes into a Dodge pickup truck, Brooklyn Paper reported. The city crash record lists unsafe speed as a contributing factor and records one death and two injuries; Brooklyn Paper, citing police, reported four injured people and one death. Police arrested Ivanov hours later on charges including manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, reckless driving, speeding and disobeying a traffic control device.
Police said a driver ran a red light before the fatal crash
Brooklyn Paper, citing police, reported that Alexey Ivanov was driving a Honda north on Second Avenue just before 6:30 p.m. when he allegedly ran a red light and hit a 2006 Mercedes headed west on 9th Street. The impact pushed the Mercedes into a Dodge pickup truck.
The city crash record places the crash at 6:25 p.m. on Sept. 14, 2025, and lists one person killed and two people injured. Brooklyn Paper reported a higher injury count, saying four people were injured and one person died.
The driver who died was identified as Arturo Alberto Baez Cordero
Brooklyn Paper identified the Mercedes driver as 34-year-old New Jersey resident Arturo Alberto Baez Cordero and reported that he was taken to NewYork-Presbyterian/Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, where he later died. The city crash record also records the person killed as a 34-year-old male driver.
Brooklyn Paper reported that Ivanov and two passengers were taken to NewYork-Presbyterian/Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, and that the Dodge pickup driver was taken to NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn.
Source records describe three involved drivers and three vehicles
The city crash record lists a 2016 Honda classified as a station wagon or sport utility vehicle traveling north, a 2006 Mercedes classified the same way traveling west, and a 2007 Dodge pickup truck traveling south and stopped in traffic. Brooklyn Paper described the Honda as a minivan and the Mercedes as a station wagon.
Speeding and a traffic signal are central in the sourced accounts
The city crash record lists unsafe speed as a contributing factor for the crash. Its Honda entry also lists unsafe speed and disregarding a traffic control device. Brooklyn Paper reported that police accused Ivanov of running a red light before the impact and later charged him with speeding and disobeying a traffic control device, among other counts.
The crash happened on a heavily traveled 9th Street corridor
The collision happened at 2nd Avenue and 9th Street in Brooklyn. CrashCountNYC’s 9th Street corridor context counts 602 crashes, 322 injuries, 23 serious injuries and 2 deaths since 2022.