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<\/a>THE INTERSECTION OF White Plains Road and East Gun Hill Road, as seen on Friday, July 31, 2026, where on Monday, July 20, 2026, Wilmary Carrion, 50, was struck by a scooter rider in a hit & run accident. Photo by David Greene<\/p>\n
A woman was killed crossing a busy intersection in the Williamsbridge section of The Bronx when she was hit by a scooter rider who then fled the scene. Police are now searching for that scooter rider.<\/p>\n
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According to the NYPD, the crash was reported at 4:19 p.m. on Monday, July 20, at White Plains Road and East Gun Hill Road in the confines of the 47th\u00a0Precinct.<\/p>\n
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On Thursday, July 30, an NYPD spokesperson told Norwood News, \u201cThe NYPD\u2019s Highway District\u2019s Collision Investigation Squad determined that a 50-year-old female pedestrian was crossing White Plains Road from east to west within a marked crosswalk when she was struck by an unidentified individual operating an electric stand-up scooter.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The woman was rushed to Jacobi Hospital in critical condition. The police official concluded, \u201cThe unidentified individual fled the scene. There are no arrests and the investigation remains ongoing.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Family members and Montefiore hospital officials identified the victim as Wilmary Carrion, 50, from the Longwood section of The Bronx. The victim was a longtime employee of the hospital. According to an announcement of her wake, Carrion succumbed to her injuries on Friday, July 24.<\/p>\n
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On Thursday, July 30, hours before Carrion\u2019s wake,\u00a0Montefiore\u00a0Hospital issued a brief statement regarding Carrion, saying, \u201cThe\u00a0Montefiore\u00a0family shares its deepest condolences with the family, friends and co-workers, and is saddened by the untimely and tragic loss.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Friday, July 31, Norwood News visited the site and spoke with \u201cSuzy\u201d who was selling ices out of a cart at the corner of White Plains Road and East Gun Hill Road, diagonally across from where Carrion was fatally struck. Suzi recalled how people had surrounded the victim, adding, \u201cI am a [former] nurse. I wanted to go over there, but I couldn\u2019t find someone to take care of my cart.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Suzi explained that she had to leave her job as a nurse since suffering a neck injury. She said of the crash, \u201cI don\u2019t know who was on the scooter or what happened with the scooter. Somebody just told me she hit her head when she hit the curb after impact.\u201d She added, \u201cThey were giving her CPR.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Suzy added, \u201cThere are constantly people dying over here because of the scooters, because people are negligent.\u201d She pointed to an NYC Department of Transportation vertical traffic control device, where all the raised flaps were apparently knocked off, with one still laying on the ground next to the curb. She explained, \u201cThey destroyed all of these things because they are coming too fast.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI am doing CPR all the time over here,\u201d Suzi continued. \u201cI pick up people and send them to the hospital.\u201d However, she her good deeds are not without some unfortunate consequence. Referring to another occasion when she was reportedly rendering aid to someone, she said, \u201cThey had stolen my stuff and took everything.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Of the latest fatal hit & run, Suzi confirmed firefighters from nearby Engine 62 \/ Ladder 32 arrived quickly and they rendered aid to Carrion. An MTA employee who also witnessed the scene shortly after the crash, said, \u201cOh, I didn\u2019t know she worked at Montefiore.\u201d He continued, \u201cShe was in the crosswalk, and she was crossing, and the guy came and it was a head on collision.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cHe took off,\u201d the MTA employee continued, \u201cIt was a hit and run. I just saw her lying on the ground. He left with the scooter. She was bleeding [\u2026.] and the firemen were trying to bring her back.\u201d He added, \u201cThe firemen came right away.\u201d Norwood News has obtained cellphone video from the scene that shows two firefighters taking turns giving Carrion CPR.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n When reached by telephone on Sunday, Aug. 2, Carrion\u2019s brother-in-law, Luis Cadcadiz, was critical of what he believes are the weak charges the perpetrator will face, if located. \u201cI\u2019ve been speaking with detectives,\u201d he said. \u201cFrom what I understand, every state has its own laws. Whatever this person did to my sister-in-law, traffic laws aren\u2019t the same [across different states]. They are not applied the same so in other words, you can hit someone on a scooter and its vehicular homicide, (if you kill them), but if the guy on a scooter kills you, I guess they get a slap on the wrist.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n New York State\u2019s standard vehicular homicide charges, such as Vehicular Manslaughter in the Second Degree (NYPL \u00a7 125.12) and Aggravated Vehicular Homicide (NYPL \u00a7 125.14), explicitly require the operation of a \u201cmotor vehicle,\u201d according to the New York State Senate and other sources. Meanwhile, according to JT NY Law, under VTL \u00a7 114-d<\/a>, low-speed electric scooters and electric-assisted bicycles are legally distinguished from standard motor vehicles.<\/p>\n Cadcadiz said that Carrion was born in Humacao, Puerto Rico and grew up in The Bronx and had worked at Montefiore for 28 years, where it\u2019s believed she worked as an administrative assistant at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Cadcadiz added, \u201cMy mother-in-law is very distraught after all of this.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Police officials could not immediately provide a description of the scooter or its rider. Norwood News asked the NYPD and NYC Department of Transportation (DOT) for surveillance video of the accident scene, as there are multiple NYPD surveillance cameras pointing at the crash site. Neither agency immediately responded to the request.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n According to the latest NYPD statistics for the week of July 20 \u2013 July 26, there were 20 crashes reported citywide involving a stand-up scooter, with Carrion\u2019s death the only fatality. There were 79 crashes citywide involving stand-up scooters during the first seven months of 2026, including seven fatalities, compared to just three fatalities during the same time period in 2025.<\/p>\n Click\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0here<\/a> to read our previous stories on the City\u2019s efforts to address hazardous conditions involving lithium-ion batteries in e-bike stores, as well as licensing requirements.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/a>A FLIER ANNOUNCING the July 30th wake for Wilmary Carrion, 50, who was struck and killed by a scooter rider at White Plains Road at East Gun Hill Road in the Williamsbridge section of The Bronx on July 20, 2026.\u00a0
Photo by David Greene<\/p>\n<\/a>A PHOTO OF Wilmary Carrion, 50, as seen in an online memorial tribute \/ obituary shared by Sisto Funeral Home.
Photo courtesy of Sisto Funeral Home<\/p>\n<\/a>A SCREENSHOT OF the latest NYPD statistics on traffic accidents citywide.
Image courtesy of the NYPD<\/p>\n<\/a>TYPES OF E-BIKES\u00a0
Flier courtesy of NYC Department of Transportation<\/p>\n