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<\/a>A \u201cGHOST\u201d BIKE dedicated to traffic collision victim Charles Ovono Oluwole, 50, of Williamsbridge, The Bronx, is seen at Southern Boulevard and Mosholu Parkway, just south of Norwood, The Bronx, on May 20, 2026. It is the 47th \u201cGhost\u201d bike installed as part of the NYC Street Memorial Project dedicated to bicycle and e-bike riders killed in The Bronx since 2005.\u00a0Photo by David Greene<\/p>\n
Editor\u2019s Note: The following is an extended version of the story that appears in our latest print edition. <\/p>\n
A dozen or so bike riders participated in the annual Bronx \u201cGhost\u201d bike \u201cRide of Silence\u201d through the borough on Wednesday, May 20. The event was organized, as usual, by the NYC Street Memorial Project and Transportation Alternatives and was dedicated to the memory of the 47 bikers killed in Bronx traffic collisions since 2005, according to Transportation Alternatives.<\/p>\n
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On the eve of the ride, Kevin Daloia, a leading biking advocate, said, \u201cWe placed a \u2018Ghost\u2019 bike at the intersection of Mosholu [Parkway] and Southern Boulevard last night and we will stop there to place and dedicate a sign for the fallen cyclist.\u201d The ghost bike memorials are actual bikes painted white, and left, along with flowers, at the locations of various fatal bicycle and e-bike collisions to raise awareness about cyclist and e-bike safety.<\/p>\n
The bike riders duly gathered the following day at the northwest corner of Mosholu Parkway at Southern Boulevard, just south of Norwood, as one of the riders hung a sign over the latest installed \u201cghost\u201d bicycle.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The group then cycled down the winding bike path along Southern Boulevard towards Bronx Park East. The bike riders also placed flowers at other \u201cghost\u201d bike sites along their 10-mile trip. They said the latest \u201cghost\u201d bike was dedicated to Charles Ovono Oluwole<\/a>, 50, of Williamsbridge, The Bronx who, according to his cousin, Ana Adeyemi, was working, making a food delivery at the time of his death<\/a> in October 2025.<\/p>\n According to the NYPD, and as reported<\/a> at the time, Oluwole was riding an e-bike eastbound on Southern Boulevard when he collided with a metal pole and was ejected from his bike. Oluwole was not wearing a helmet and suffered severe head trauma. He was transported to St. Barnabas Hospital where he was pronounced deceased.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n On Thursday, June 4, Adeyemi, who is Oluwole\u2019s only relative in the United States, recalled, \u201cWe got the news on October 7, and we did the burial on November 14.\u201d Adeyemi had posted a GoFundMe request that helped pay for Oluwole\u2019s burial at Woodlawn Cemetery. Asked what police told her at the time of her cousin\u2019s death, Adeyemi replied, \u201cThey said he hit his head on the pole.\u201d Asked if he had worn a helmet, she said, \u201cNo, no helmet.\u201d<\/p>\n According to Adeyemi, Oluwole came to The Bronx from Nigeria in 2012. She said he was undocumented and often worked for a popular food delivery company. She said he would also take odd jobs, like covering as a security guard. \u201cHe was a hard worker,\u201d Adeyemi said. According to an obituary distributed at Oluwole\u2019s wake, he was \u201centhusiastic about music\u201d and taught himself how to play drums and keyboard. According to the obituary, Oluwole was survived by his siblings, Seyi Arayela and Oluleke Arayela, as well as his cousin, Adeyemi.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Oluwole would become at least the third victim of a fatal bicycle collision on an estimated one-mile stretch of Southern Boulevard between East Bedford Park Boulevard and Bronx Park East in the last decade. According to published reports, in April 2016, cyclist Heather Lough<\/a>, 29, was struck and killed by a truck, literally feet from arriving at her job at the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG). The driver of the truck had just made a delivery to the garden.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n According to Streetsblog<\/a>, in July 2018, the truck driver, Robert Owens, now 54, pled guilty to reckless driving and one count of failure to exercise due care, a traffic infraction. He was reportedly fined $1,088 and his driver\u2019s license was suspended for 75 days.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Norwood News reported on a fatal hit \u2018n run<\/a> crash that took place on June 18, 2021 on Southern Boulevard at the entrance to the northbound Bronx River Parkway. The NYPD said at the time the victim, an e-bike cyclist, was fatally struck by a 2019 Mercedes Benz, and the driver fled the scene on foot.<\/p>\n On Tuesday, June 9, an NYPD official told Norwood News the victim had still not been identified, and no arrests have been made. We asked if a photo, sketch or description of the victim or of the Mercedes Benz driver was available, and if the vehicle had been stolen. We had not received a response as of press date.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n On Friday, June 4, Norwood News spoke to Erin, a biker and Woodlawn resident, who said he bikes 4 miles a day, commuting as a teacher. Crossing from the eastbound to the westbound lane along a heavily congested Mosholu Parkway the same day, Erin said of the area, \u201cI drive here often; never any problems.\u201d He continued, \u201cThat\u2019s the concern, running into someone else with a bike, like this guy right here.\u201d Erin gestured to a man riding an e-bike who turned onto an incline while wearing a pair of headphones.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cAnd you can\u2019t say anything to them, or they\u2019ll flip out on you and pull their guns out on you,\u201d Erin continued. \u201cIn terms of the cars, you\u2019ve got to stay out of their way. If not, you might get hit.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The New York City Street Memorial Project began in 1992 according to advocates and has since become a worldwide phenomenon. Used bikes are donated to the group that are amended by Recycle-a-bicycle so that they cannot be ridden anymore and are used instead for the memorials.<\/p>\n In February 2024, as reported<\/a>, a woman was arrested and charged in relation to a 2022 hit \u2018n run incident in which a cyclist was killed in the Soundview section of The Bronx. In 2023, a 64-year-old e-bike cyclist was killed<\/a> in a separate hit \u2018n run incident in Morris Park. In May 2021, another cyclist was struck<\/a>\u00a0on Mosholu Parkway in Norwood\/Bedford Park by an SUV.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n In November 2020, bus and bike lanes were added to a Bronx corridor in Highbridge which was a hub for cyclist injuries<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Councilmember Eric Dinowitz (C.D. 11) held a kids\u2019 free bike helmet giveaway in the Williamsbridge Oval in Norwood on Sunday, May 17.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n More recently, as reported<\/a>, a 32-year-old motorcyclist was killed in an MTA bus-motorcycle accident near Tracey Towers in Bedford Park in April 2026. As above, only bicycles and e-bikes fall within the scope of the Street Memorial Project.<\/p>\n An overview of the latest available transit fatalities and collisions, including those involving bicycles and e-bikes is attached for both Patrol Borough Bronx North and Patrol Borough Bronx South for the 28-day period ending June 7 2026. As reported<\/a>, the division of the borough into two distinct north and south patrol commands was implemented in May, having been first announced<\/a>\u00a0in February.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Patrol Borough Bronx North, headquartered at the 48th Precinct in Belmont, comprises NYPD Precincts 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, and 52, while Patrol Borough Bronx South, headquartered at the 40th Precinct in the South Bronx, comprises NYPD Precincts 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, and 45.<\/p>\n On March 16, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and NYC Department of Transportation (DOT) Commissioner Mike Flynn announced that DOT plans to reduce the speed limit to 15 mph at every eligible school location across the five boroughs by the end of Mamdani\u2019s first term. They said the move is designed to protect children and their families on the City\u2019s streets and represents the largest increase to date in the City\u2019s use of Sammy\u2019s Law to reduce speed limits across the city.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n According to the Streetsblog<\/a>,\u00a0Sammy\u2019s Law<\/a> is a State law named for 12-year-old Sammy Cohen Eckstein who was killed by a driver on Prospect Park West in Brooklyn in 2013, and which was finally passed in Albany in 2024. After years of lobbying by advocates for safer streets, the law allows the City to impose reduced speed limits.<\/p>\n City officials said more than 800 additional school locations will see speed limits reduced to 15 mph this year, bringing the total school locations with 15 mph speed limits to 1,300 by the end of the calendar year. They said the administration also plans to expand 15 mph School Slow Zones, where eligible, at all 2,300 school locations across the five boroughs by the end of Mamdani\u2019s first term.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n They said these 2,300 school locations house 3,200 schools citywide, with some schools co-located, and added that implementation will be prioritized based on available safety data, and other planned street safety improvements.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cFamilies spoke up after unimaginable loss to fight for Sammy\u2019s Law and deliver our city the power to make our streets safer for New Yorkers,\u201d the mayor said in March at the announcement. \u201cToday\u2019s expansion of Slow Zones for schools across all five boroughs is just the beginning. Lower speeds save lives, and we will use every tool at our disposal to protect our neighbors as they move about our city.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cOur school children and their families should feel safe and comfortable as they travel to and from class. Speeding is the leading cause of traffic deaths, and even a small speed reduction can mean the difference between life and death in a crash,\u201d said Flynn. \u201cThese speed limit reductions will follow our data-driven Vision Zero approach to deliver the greatest safety impact.\u201d<\/p>\n Officials said this year, DOT will implement 15 mph speed limits at the roughly 700 school locations with existing 20 mph School Slow Zones and establish about 100 new 15 mph School Slow Zones at other school locations with existing 25 mph speed limits. They said data showed that pedestrians struck at 25 mph are more than three times as likely to be seriously injured than pedestrians struck at 15 mph.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n City officials went on to say that at each school, DOT will provide the mandatory 60-day notice and comment opportunity to local community boards before implementation of the new speed limit. They added that at the most dangerous locations near schools, the agency will continue to focus on upgrading street and intersection designs to help naturally slow vehicles and improve safety, including elements like speed humps, hardened daylighting and other safety upgrades.<\/p>\n They said the City has so far lowered speed limits at just over 100 locations since the passage of Sammy\u2019s Law in the spring of 2024, including a regional slow zone in each borough. In addition to the 15 mph School Slow Zone expansion, they said DOT would continue to explore additional opportunities to roll out lower speed limits across the city in the months ahead.\u00a0<\/p>\n The news was welcomed by Families for Safe Streets, Transportation Alternatives, and Streets PAC along with those who sponsored the bill.<\/p>\n In August 2021, DOT called for the expansion of speed cameras in school zones following a Bronx fatal crash<\/a>, and in October 2024, the expansion of New York City\u2019s red light speed camera program was signed into law<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Read some of our prior \u201cGhost Bike\u201d coverage here<\/a> and some other related cycling coverage here<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n *S\u00edle Moloney contributed to this story.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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Photo by David Greene<\/p>\n<\/a>AN UNDATED PHOTO of road accident victim Charles Ovono Oluwole, 50, who police say was riding his bike without a helmet at the time of the accident, struck a metal pole and was killed some years ago, is shown to Norwood News by the victim\u2019s cousin.
Photo courtesy of Ana Adeyemi<\/p>\n<\/a>TRANSIT COLLISIONS & fatalities for Patrol Borough Bronx North for the 28-day period ending June 7 2026, compared to the same timeframe last year (left), and year-to-date transit collisions & fatalities for Patrol Borough Bronx North as of June 7, 2026, compared to last year (right). Patrol Borough Bronx North covers The Bronx\u2019s 46th, 47th, 48th, 49th, 50th and 52nd Precincts.\u00a0
Source: NYPD via TrafficStat<\/p>\n<\/a>TRANSIT COLLISIONS+ FOR Patrol Borough Bronx North for the 28-day period ending June 7 2026, compared to the same timeframe last year (left), and year-to-date transit collisions+ for Patrol Borough Bronx North as of June 7, 2026, compared to last year (right). Patrol Borough Bronx North covers The Bronx\u2019s 46th, 47th, 48th, 49th, 50th and 52nd Precincts.\u00a0
Source: NYPD via TrafficStat<\/p>\n<\/a>TRANSIT FATALITIES+ FOR Patrol Borough Bronx North for the 28-day period ending June 7 2026, compared to the same timeframe last year (left), and year-to-date transit fatalities+ for Patrol Borough Bronx North as of June 7, 2026, compared to last year (right). Patrol Borough Bronx North covers The Bronx\u2019s 46th, 47th, 48th, 49th, 50th and 52nd Precincts.\u00a0
Source: NYPD via TrafficStat<\/p>\n<\/a>TRANSIT COLLISIONS FOR Patrol Borough Bronx South for the 28-day period ending June 7 2026, compared to the same timeframe last year (left), and year-to-date transit collisions for Patrol Borough Bronx South as of June 7, 2026, compared to last year (right). Patrol Borough Bronx South covers The Bronx\u2019s 40th, 41st, 42nd, 43rd, 44th, and 45th Precincts.\u00a0
Source: NYPD via TrafficStat<\/p>\n<\/a>TRANSIT FATALITIES FOR Patrol Borough Bronx South for the 28-day period ending June 7 2026, compared to the same timeframe last year (left), and year-to-date transit fatalities for Patrol Borough Bronx South as of June 7, 2026, compared to last year (right). Patrol Borough Bronx South covers The Bronx\u2019s 40th, 41st, 42nd, 43rd, 44th, and 45th Precincts.\u00a0
Source: NYPD via TrafficStat<\/p>\n<\/a>TRANSIT COLLISIONS+ FOR Patrol Borough Bronx South for the 28-day period ending June 7 2026, compared to the same timeframe last year (left), and year-to-date transit collisions+ for Patrol Borough Bronx South as of June 7, 2026, compared to last year (right). Patrol Borough Bronx South covers The Bronx\u2019s 40th, 41st, 42nd, 43rd, 44th, and 45th Precincts.\u00a0
Source: NYPD via TrafficStat<\/p>\n<\/a>TRANSIT FATALITIES+ FOR Patrol Borough Bronx South for the 28-day period ending June 7 2026, compared to the same timeframe last year (left), and year-to-date transit fatalities+ for Patrol Borough Bronx South as of June 7, 2026, compared to last year (right). Patrol Borough Bronx South covers The Bronx\u2019s 40th, 41st, 42nd, 43rd, 44th, and 45th Precincts.\u00a0
Source: NYPD via TrafficStat<\/p>\n