Two men died on Thursday morning after they collided in the bike lane on the Queensboro Bridge, the police said.<\/p>\n
The police responded at 8:21 a.m. after a 39-year-old man riding a stand-up electric scooter crashed into a 35-year-old man on a bike. The e-scooter driver was traveling westbound, while the biker was traveling eastbound, the police said.<\/p>\n
The men were brought to NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in Queens, where they were pronounced dead. Photos taken in the aftermath of the collision show a white bike snapped clean in half, with an orange e-scooter lying next to it. The crumpled front tire of the bike rests against the bridge.<\/p>\n
The e-scooter involved in the crash was not legal for street use, because it was capable of much faster speeds than allowed under city law, and should not have been operated on any city streets or bike paths, according to Vincent Barone, a spokesman for the Department of Transportation.<\/p>\n
The speed limit for bicycles and electric bikes is 15 m.p.h. An electric standing scooter \u2014 one that doesn\u2019t have a seat \u2014 is illegal in New York City if it has the capability of traveling more than 20 m.p.h.<\/p>\n
Danny Pearlstein, a spokesman for Riders Alliance, a transportation policy nonprofit, said the speed of the illegal vehicle was most likely the reason for the severity of the crash.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is like throwing a grenade on city streets,\u201d he said, blaming the device manufacturers and suppliers.<\/p>\n