A 17-year-old e-bike rider died in a collision with an SUV near City Hall in Lower Manhattan on Wednesday, the NYPD said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The teen and the black Chevy Tahoe, driven by a 40-year-old woman, were both headed north on Centre Street when the crash happened, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Emergency personnel responded to the intersection of Centre and Chambers streets around 9 a.m., authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The teen died at the scene, and the driver remained there after the crash, according to police.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The NYPD didn\u2019t immediately release any additional details about the incident. An investigation is ongoing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
City Council Member Chris Marte, who represents the district where the crash happened, called for safety upgrades at the intersection.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cFor years, we have been warning that the intersection of Chambers Street and Centre Street is extremely dangerous and needs safety improvements, but we were told it was not a priority,\u201d Marte said in a statement. \u201cBecause of this inaction, a teenager has lost their life. While recent improvements to the bike lanes entering the Brooklyn Bridge are welcome, today\u2019s tragedy shows they are not enough.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI call on the [city Department of Transportation] to immediately begin a safety redesign of Chambers Street and Centre Street,and implement an East-West bike lane along Chambers Street,\u201d he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In a statement, the DOT said, \u201cWe are reviewing the details of this crash and our thoughts are with the family and loved ones of the victim.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 17-year-old e-bike rider died in a collision with an SUV near City Hall in Lower Manhattan on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309148,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[387,25,112734,75,9,24,11,10,12,308,27],"class_list":["post-309147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-app-public-safety","tag-app-top-stories","tag-colleen-nakhooda","tag-manhattan","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-news","tag-public-safety","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309147","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=309147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}