{"id":288083,"date":"2026-07-06T14:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T14:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/288083\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T14:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T14:50:09","slug":"police-release-name-of-electric-scooter-rider-who-died-crashing-into-utility-pole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/288083\/","title":{"rendered":"Police release name of electric scooter rider who died crashing into utility pole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GRANBY, N.Y. \u2014 The New York State Police identified the man who died after crashing his electric scooter last week.<\/p>\n<p>The state police identified the deceased as Dylan C. Scheller, 31, of Skaneateles, N.Y.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency crews responded to the crash on State Route 48 at Melrose Avenue in the Town of Granby around 7 a.m. on July 3. Scheller was found at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The police said a preliminary investigation determined that Scheller, who was wearing a helmet, had failed to negotiate a turn on State Route 48 and crashed into a utility pole.<\/p>\n<p>Scheller was <a href=\"https:\/\/cnycentral.com\/news\/local\/scooter-rider-dies-after-crashing-into-utility-pole-in-granby\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">alert and responsive to emergency crews<\/a> at first. They believed he sustained non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p>However, he was taken to Oswego Hospital and died. The police said it&#8217;s believed that he sustained hidden, internal injuries. The manner of his death was not revealed as of Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The police said the Onondaga County Medical Examiner&#8217;s Office will perform an autopsy to determine his cause of death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GRANBY, N.Y. \u2014 The New York State Police identified the man who died after crashing his electric scooter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-288083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288083","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=288083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}