{"id":172773,"date":"2026-03-23T23:40:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T23:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/172773\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T23:40:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T23:40:24","slug":"e-bike-rider-hit-by-speeding-high-on-pcp-harlem-driver-was-killed-on-sons-10th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/172773\/","title":{"rendered":"E-bike rider hit by speeding high-on-PCP Harlem driver was killed on son’s 10th birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"

A hardworking deliverista struck by an out-of-control <\/a>driver high on PCP in Harlem was killed on his son\u2019s 10th birthday, and the boy still hasn\u2019t been told his dad is dead.<\/p>\n

Darlyn Zacarias, 28, was struck on his e-bike<\/a> on W. 125th St. and Frederick Douglass Blvd. around 8 p.m. Thursday by the speeding driver of a red Hyundai Tucson with South Carolina plates. The victim\u2019s family believes he was working his job delivering food for an app-based service when he was killed.<\/p>\n

\"Pedestrians<\/p>\n

Obtained by Daily News<\/p>\n

Pedestrians jump for cover as an out of control car speeds down 125th St. near Frederick Douglas Blvd. on Thursday night. (Obtained by Daily News)<\/p>\n

\u201cHis son now has no father. His son doesn\u2019t know that his dad passed away,\u201d the victim\u2019s uncle Edwin Zacarias, 47, said in Spanish. \u201cSomeone is gonna have to stand up and be there for him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Darlyn, whose nickname given by family is \u201cMantequilla,\u201d Spanish for butter, after his favorite food, came to the United States from the Dominican Republic when he was 9 with his late mother.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone loved him. He was just very kind,\u201d the uncle said. \u201cHe never hurt anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the past two years, Darlyn was working as a deliverista to get by. He lived in the Highbridge section of the Bronx.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe told him and warned him about the job, that it was a very dangerous job,\u201d Edwin said. \u201cBut he was just a hardworking guy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Darlyn is the fifth cyclist killed on New York City\u2019s streets<\/a> and the 34th New Yorker killed in a traffic crash so far this year, according to the bicyclist advocacy group Transportation Alternatives.<\/p>\n

\"One<\/p>\n

Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News<\/p>\n

An e-bike rider was killed and four others injured in a crash on W. 125th St. and Frederick Douglass Blvd. in Harlem Thursday night. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

\u201cDarlyn was already working as a delivery driver when his grandmother warned him. Darlyn argued that jobs were hard to come by and that he had no other choice,\u201d a cousin of the victim said. \u201cDuring the chaotic period he spent working there, e-bike accidents began to occur, and that was when his grandmother started giving him advice.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Hyundai sent off a spray of sparks as it roared down W. 125th St. moments after striking Darlyn and a second e-bike rider. The other rider was hospitalized in critical condition.<\/p>\n

\u201cDelivery work is among the most hazardous jobs<\/a> in New York City,\u201d Ligia Cuallpa, the executive director of advocacy group Los Deliveristas Unidos, said in a statement. \u201cOne in five workers has been injured on the job, and the occupation has a fatality rate five times higher than construction. Behind these numbers are workers navigating congested streets, unsafe road conditions and dangerous driving behavior while under constant pressure to move faster themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cops charged 49-year-old Kevin Crosby with aggravated vehicular homicide, manslaughter and driving while impaired by drugs. Like Darlyn, he lives in the Bronx, according to cops.<\/p>\n

\"KevinKevin Crosby is arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court on Friday. (Daniel McKnight \/ Lone Pine Press \/ POOL)<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is on video driving at an extremely high rate of speed, as compared to other vehicles, straight into a person on a bike,\u201d Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Emily Hong said at Crosby\u2019s arraignment late Friday. \u201cHe clearly also strikes another cyclist with his vehicle.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBoth cyclists fly in the air and land a significant distance away,\u201d Hong added.<\/p>\n

Darlyn was rushed to Mount Sinai Morningside, where he died. The other e-biker was taken to Harlem Hospital in critical condition.<\/p>\n

\"AA memorial to Darlyn Zacarias outside the Bronx apartment building he lived in. He was fatally struck while working as an e-bike delivery person in Harlem on Thursday. (Julian Roberts-Grmela \/ NY Daily News)<\/p>\n

Three other victims, a 40-year-old in a parked Toyota RAV4 and two men, ages 28 and 23, in a parked Lexus, were rushed to Harlem Hospital with minor injuries. The Tucson hit both vehicles and an unoccupied NYPD vehicle before finally coming to a stop after slamming into and wedging under an 18-wheel tractor-trailer.<\/p>\n

Crosby, who wasn\u2019t seriously hurt in the crash, was clearly intoxicated when cops pulled him out of the mangled Hyundai, court papers say.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe defendant had pinpoint pupils, slurred speech, was swaying on his feet, and had an odor of what he believed to be PCP or K2 on his breath,\u201d prosecutors said, the latter referring to synthetic marijuana.<\/p>\n

Crosby later admitted that he had smoked PCP that morning, then smoked weed before driving, Hong said.<\/p>\n

His defense attorney Seann Riley said Crosby\u2019s apparent intoxication \u201cdoesn\u2019t tell the full story.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe car had mechanical issues and the brakes and the steering wheel were jammed,\u201d Riley told Judge Jeffrey Gershuny.<\/p>\n

Gershuny ordered Crosby held without bail until his next court appearance. The judge also had Crosby\u2019s driving license suspended.<\/p>\n

Crosby has an extensive criminal history with 21 arrests stretching back to the 1990s, prosecutors said. Over the past three decades, he\u2019s been arrested for gunpoint robbery, drug possession, assault and criminal trespass, and in 2007 was arrested for operating a motor vehicle without a license, officials said.<\/p>\n

\u201cA person like that should be in jail for many, many years\u201d and \u201cshouldn\u2019t even be on the streets,\u201d Darlyn\u2019s cousin said. \u201cIf he would have been in jail \u2026 Darlyn would have still been alive.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A hardworking deliverista struck by an out-of-control driver high on PCP in Harlem was killed on his son\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,262,263,266,85,267,75,9,24,264,12,63,261,265,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-172773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-manhattan","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172773","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=172773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}