{"id":302502,"date":"2026-07-22T02:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T02:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/302502\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T02:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T02:27:08","slug":"woman-45-riding-standup-e-scooter-killed-by-dump-truck-in-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/302502\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman, 45, riding standup e-scooter killed by dump truck in Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 45-year-old woman riding a standup electric scooter was killed when the driver of a 2007 Peterbilt Dump Truck<\/a> slammed into her at a Brooklyn street corner, cops said.<\/p>\n

Melba Jordan was maneuvering her scooter north on Franklin Ave. in Crown Heights when she collided with the southbound truck as it turned right onto Pacific St. shortly after 11 a.m. Tuesday, according to law enforcement.<\/p>\n

Medics rushed her to Kings County Hospital<\/a> in critical condition, but she could not be saved.<\/p>\n

The 68-year-old man driving the dump truck was not injured, cops said. He remained at the scene.<\/p>\n

No charges were immediately filed. An investigation by the NYPD\u2019s Collision Investigation Squad<\/a> remains ongoing.<\/p>\n

Jordan lived in Boerum Hill, about two miles from where she was killed, cops said.<\/p>\n

Tuesday\u2019s fatal crash happened just three blocks away from where \u00a067-year-old Heriberto Morales was killed in a chain reaction crash<\/a> on Saturday,\u00a0 cops said.<\/p>\n

Morales was fatally struck when a 48-year-old man driving a 2025 Toyota Highlander east on St. Marks Ave. in Crown Heights slammed into a northbound 2026 Hyundai Palisade at Franklin Ave. about 3 p.m., cops said.<\/p>\n

The impact sent the Hyundai careening over the curb, where it struck Morales and a parked 2006 Honda Odyssey, cops said.<\/p>\n

EMS ferried Morales to Kings County Hospital, where he died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 45-year-old woman riding a standup electric scooter was killed when the driver of a 2007 Peterbilt Dump…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,35198,9,24,63,2216,6095],"class_list":["post-302502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-killed","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-scooter","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302502","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=302502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}