{"id":159183,"date":"2026-03-10T14:36:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T14:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/159183\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T14:36:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T14:36:33","slug":"man-riding-electric-scooter-dies-after-hitting-pothole-on-queens-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/159183\/","title":{"rendered":"Man riding electric scooter dies after hitting pothole on Queens street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 46-year-old man <a href=\"https:\/\/data.cityofnewyork.us\/Public-Safety\/Motor-Vehicle-Collisions-Crashes\/h9gi-nx95\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">riding an electric scooter was killed<\/a> when he hit a pothole on a bustling Queens street, police said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was riding his stand-up scooter under the elevated subway tracks on Liberty Ave. in South Richmond Hill when he hit the pothole near 109th St. about 9:30 p.m. Monday, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The man went flying off the scooter and hit his head on the asphalt, dying at the scene, cops said. His name was not immediately released.<\/p>\n<p>The city has been <a href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\/news\/local-news\/potholes-plague-new-york-roads-and-highways-after-harsh-winter\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">plagued with potholes<\/a> formed during the massive back-to-back snowstorms and a record-breaking cold snap this year.<\/p>\n<p>The constant expansion and contraction caused by extreme temperatures weaken the asphalt until it breaks apart as cars roll across it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 46-year-old man riding an electric scooter was killed when he hit a pothole on a bustling Queens&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,122,124,123,265],"class_list":["post-159183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}