Scooter Rider and Cyclist Die in Queensboro Bridge Collision.
A 39-year-old scooter rider and a 35-year-old cyclist died after a collision on the Queensboro Bridge bike path at 8:21 a.m. on May 28, 2026; police reports identified them as Francis Delvalle and Dmytro Stechenko.
Approximate reported location.
What We Know
Police reports identified 39-year-old Francis Delvalle as the motorized scooter rider and 35-year-old Dmytro Stechenko as the bicyclist; both died after the crash on the Queensboro Bridge path. The official record lists the scooter rider traveling west and passing, and the cyclist traveling east, but amNewYork reported the directions in reverse. Reports did not establish how fast either rider was traveling.
Reports differ on the riders’ directions.
Gothamist reported police said Delvalle was traveling west and Stechenko east when they collided. The New York Post later reported police said Delvalle moved left to pass a bicyclist. The official record also lists the scooter rider traveling west and passing, and the cyclist traveling east and going straight.
amNewYork reported the opposite directions, placing the scooter rider eastbound and the cyclist westbound. The crash record gives the time as 8:21 a.m.; several reports describe a morning crash, while FOX 5 gave a time shortly before 8:30 p.m. Reports did not establish either rider’s actual speed.
The opposing bike lanes meet on a narrow bridge path.
The crash record locates the collision on the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge bike path. CBS New York reported that a painted white line separates the narrow eastbound and westbound bike lanes.
ABC7 reported that a 2025 redesign assigned the bridge’s north outer roadway to bicycles and its south outer roadway to pedestrians.
Friends and family described the lives behind the crash.
Dmytro Stechenko worked in software and cycled with a longtime friend.
Stechenko, 35, lived in Long Island City and worked as a software engineer at Meta, according to the Daily News. His best friend, Alex Pawlowski, told Streetsblog they met while studying computer science in Kyiv 16 years earlier, reconnected in New York, and rode endurance laps in Central Park together.
Francis Delvalle was on his way to work.
Delvalle’s son told the Daily News he was on his way to work that morning. His friend Rachel Huynh told ABC News he left a wife and two children.
Reports name different versions of the scooter model.
The crash record identifies the scooter as a Teverun Blade GT II, as does the Daily News. The New York Post’s May 30 report calls it a Teverun Blade GT. The Daily News described Stechenko’s bicycle as pedal-powered.
The Daily News reported that the scooter model was advertised with a top speed of 53 mph. That is not a measure of its speed during the crash; reports said the riders’ actual speeds had not been established.
The deaths renewed calls for safer streets and device rules.
Transportation Alternatives urged the City Council to pass Intro 244, a proposal to restrict sales of certain high-speed e-bikes and e-scooters, Gothamist reported. Pawlowski called for better infrastructure and enforcement; State Sen. Kristen Gonzalez told Streetsblog she was drafting legislation addressing sales and risk disclosures.
Streetsblog later reported that Teverun added a website warning about using unrestricted scooter mode on public roads after reviewers alerted the company to coverage of the crash.