Scooter Rider Dies After Marine Park Collision
Ilya Perloff died after a Dec. 21 collision at Fillmore Avenue and East 38th Street, where officials recorded unsafe speed and police said he was riding an electric stand-up scooter when he collided with a Toyota Sienna driver.
What We Know
Ilya Perloff was riding an electric stand-up scooter west on Fillmore Avenue at East 38th Street in Marine Park on Dec. 21, 2025, when he was involved in a collision with a 2015 Toyota Sienna traveling north, according to police accounts cited by the Daily News and Patch. Police said the impact sent him into a parked Chrysler minivan, and medics took him to Mount Sinai Brooklyn, where he died. The city crash record lists one person killed at the intersection and cites unsafe speed as a contributing factor. Press accounts identify the Sienna driver as a 70-year-old woman who remained at the scene and was not injured; reports said there were no immediate arrests or no criminality suspected.
A Sunday trip to work ended at Fillmore and East 38th
Police told the Daily News that Ilya Perloff was riding west on Fillmore Avenue on an electric stand-up scooter at about 11:50 a.m. when he was involved in a collision with a 2015 Toyota Sienna traveling north on East 38th Street. Police said the impact sent him into a parked Chrysler minivan, and medics took him to Mount Sinai Brooklyn, where he died.
The city crash record places the collision at Fillmore Avenue and East 38th Street at 11:49 a.m. on Dec. 21, 2025, and records one person killed. The official record lists the fatally injured person as a male driver of other motorized equipment.
Reports identified the rider as Ilya Perloff
The Daily News identified the scooter rider as Ilya Perloff, a Brooklyn physical therapist who was on his way to work. His wife, Melissa Perloff, told the paper that he loved the scooter and did not want the family to get a second car.
Published accounts disagreed on his age: the Daily News and Patch reported that Perloff was 41, while News 12 and the city crash record listed him as 42.
The other driver stayed at the scene
Police accounts cited by the Daily News and Patch said the Toyota Sienna driver was a 70-year-old woman who remained at the scene and was not hurt. Those reports said there were no arrests or no immediate charges; News 12 reported that police said no criminality was suspected.
The city crash record lists three involved units: a westbound stand-up scooter, a northbound 2015 Toyota sport utility or station wagon entry consistent with the Toyota Sienna described in press accounts, and a parked 2002 Chrysler sport utility or station wagon entry.
Unsafe speed appears in the official record
The city crash record lists unsafe speed as a contributing factor for the westbound scooter entry and for the collision overall. The reviewed press accounts did not report charges tied to that factor.
Fillmore Avenue has a recent record of serious harm
The crash happened at Fillmore Avenue and East 38th Street in Marine Park, Brooklyn. CrashCountNYC location data for Fillmore Avenue in Brooklyn shows 142 crashes, 111 injuries, seven serious injuries and one death since 2022.
News 12 reported that residents said the intersection does not have a four-way stop and is known for previous crashes.
Family and school community organized support
Patch reported that a fundraiser for Perloff’s wife and two daughters had raised roughly $61,000 from more than 400 donors by Tuesday afternoon, one day after it launched. News 12 reported that a co-worker of Melissa Perloff at PS101 in Bath Beach created the fundraiser and said the school community was grieving.
News 12 reported that a funeral was scheduled for Tuesday in Marine Park.