{"id":310302,"date":"2026-07-30T23:52:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T23:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/310302\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T23:52:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T23:52:48","slug":"woman-riding-e-scooter-dies-in-uws-crash-involving-tesla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/310302\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman riding e-scooter dies in UWS crash involving Tesla"},"content":{"rendered":"

A woman riding a standup e-scooter was killed when she collided with a man driving a Tesla on Manhattan\u2019s Upper West Side Thursday, cops said.<\/p>\n

The 49-year-old victim was riding north along Amsterdam Ave. when the Tesla driver struck her as he traveled west on W. 60th St. about 10:35 a.m., according to law enforcement.<\/p>\n

Medics rushed the victim to Mt. Sinai Morningside Hospital<\/a>, where she died. Her name was not immediately disclosed.<\/p>\n

The Tesla driver, a 34-year-old man, remained at the scene. No charges were immediately filed.<\/p>\n

An investigation by the NYPD\u2019s Collision Investigation Squad remains ongoing, cops said.<\/p>\n

The woman\u2019s death follows two fatal crashes involving e-scooters in Brooklyn last week.<\/p>\n

Ajpop Walter was riding his scooter south on 14th Ave. when he collided with a Toyota driver, a 56-year-old man traveling in the same direction, near 77th St. in Dyker Heights<\/a> at about 5:16 p.m. July 22, according to law enforcement.<\/p>\n

Medics rushed the victim to\u00a0Maimonides Medical Center, where he died later that day.<\/p>\n

One day earlier, Melba Jordan, 45, was killed riding her scooter<\/a> north along Franklin Ave. in Crown Heights when the driver of a 2007 Peterbilt dump truck heading in the opposite direction struck her as the driver turned right onto Pacific St. shortly after 11 a.m. Tuesday, cops said.<\/p>\n

Medics rushed Jordan to\u00a0Kings County Hospital\u00a0in critical condition, but she could not be saved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman riding a standup e-scooter was killed when she collided with a man driving a Tesla on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,75,84,83,9,24,264,12,63,261,265],"class_list":["post-310302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310302","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=310302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}