{"id":341019,"date":"2025-12-11T05:36:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T05:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/341019\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T05:36:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T05:36:10","slug":"van-driver-kills-cyclist-on-riverside-drive-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/341019\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Driver Kills Cyclist on Riverside Drive: Cops"},"content":{"rendered":"

The driver of a minivan hit and killed a philanthropist who was cycling north up Riverside Drive in Washington Heights late on Sunday, according to friends and cops.<\/p>\n

Cops say the wreck unfolded a little after 9 p.m. on Sunday at Riverside Drive and 158th Street when a 37-year-old driver of a white Toyota minivan struck the 78-year-old biker from behind.<\/p>\n

The driver remained at the scene and has not been charged. The investigation is ongoing, the NYPD said.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the biker, identified by friends as Geoffrey Radbill, was rushed to Harlem Hospital, where he died.<\/p>\n

\"AThe corner of Riverside Avenue and 158th Street.Google Maps<\/p>\n

Radbill’s grieving life partner declined to speak when reached at their Upper West Side apartment on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Radbill built a career at a major financial services firm<\/a> in the city, AXA-Equitable. He became a prolific donor to his alma mater, Bowling Green State University in Ohio. A renovated portion of the university’s Mathematical Sciences Building was named after him in 2023<\/a>. <\/p>\n

He was also a major fundraiser for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. <\/p>\n

Radbill’s death is just the latest wreck at the uptown intersection. <\/p>\n

City data<\/a> show there have been 11 reported crashes at that intersection since January 2020, injuring one pedestrian and two cyclists.<\/p>\n

There have been 79,188 reported collisions on city streets so far this year, the same records show<\/a>, injuring 5,188 cyclists and 8,330 pedestrians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The driver of a minivan hit and killed a philanthropist who was cycling north up Riverside Drive in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-341019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}