{"id":305295,"date":"2026-07-25T02:25:46","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T02:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/305295\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T02:25:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T02:25:46","slug":"man-20-killed-riding-e-scooter-after-toyota-driver-strikes-him-in-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/305295\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 20, killed riding e-scooter after Toyota driver strikes him in Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 20-year-old man was killed when the driver of a 2012 Toyota Sienna slammed into him as he rode a stand-up e-scooter through Brooklyn, cops said Friday.<\/p>\n

Ajpop Walter was riding his scooter south on 14th Ave. when the Toyota driver, a 56-year-old man traveling in the same direction, struck him near 77th St. in Dyker Heights about 5:16 p.m. Wednesday, according to law enforcement.<\/p>\n

Medics rushed the victim to Maimonides Medical Center<\/a>, where he died later that day.<\/p>\n

The Toyota driver remained at the scene. There were no arrests.<\/p>\n

The victim lived about four blocks away from where he was killed, cops said.<\/p>\n

Walter was killed just one day after a fatal crash claimed the life of another e-scooter rider in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n

Melba Jordan, 45, was riding her scooter north along Franklin Ave. in Crown Heights when the driver of a 2007 Peterbilt dump truck heading in the opposite direction slammed into her<\/a> as the driver turned right onto Pacific St. shortly after 11 a.m. Tuesday, according to law enforcement.<\/p>\n

\"Police<\/p>\n

Gardiner Anderson \/ New York Daily News<\/p>\n

Police investigate a collision involving an electric scooter on Pacific St. and Franklin Ave. in Brooklyn on Tuesday. (Gardiner Anderson \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

Medics rushed Jordan to Kings County Hospital<\/a>\u00a0in critical condition, but she could not be saved.<\/p>\n

The 68-year-old truck driver remained at the the scene and was not arrested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 20-year-old man was killed when the driver of a 2012 Toyota Sienna slammed into him as he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,2214,44074,2045,10661,9,24,63,64011],"class_list":["post-305295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-crash","tag-dump-truck","tag-dyker-heights","tag-e-scooter","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-traffic-fatality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305295","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=305295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}