{"id":341319,"date":"2026-09-09T01:48:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T01:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/341319\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T01:48:24","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T01:48:24","slug":"e-scooter-operator-77-killed-in-head-on-crash-in-brooklyn-bike-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/341319\/","title":{"rendered":"E-scooter operator, 77, killed in head-on crash in Brooklyn bike lane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 77-year-old man riding an e-scooter in a Brooklyn bike lane was killed in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/site\/nypd\/stats\/traffic-data\/traffic-fatalities.page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">head-on crash<\/a> with a bicyclist, cops said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Bakas was riding his stand-up scooter in the two-way bike lane on Schermerhorn St. in downtown Brooklyn when he collided with the 47-year-old bicyclist heading in the opposite direction near Smith St. around 2:20 p.m. Monday, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The cyclist struck Bakas as he merged into the bike lane after darting between two parked cars, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>Both men were thrown in the crash. Neither of them wore helmets.<\/p>\n<p>Medics rushed Bakas to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyp.org\/locations\/brooklyn\/nyp-brooklyn-methodist-hospital\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Presbyterian-Brooklyn Methodist Hospital<\/a>, where he died.<\/p>\n<p>The bicyclist stayed at the scene. There were no immediate arrests.<\/p>\n<p>Bakas lived about three blocks from where the crash occurred, officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 77-year-old man riding an e-scooter in a Brooklyn bike lane was killed in a head-on crash with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,11,10,12,261,265],"class_list":["post-341319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-news","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341319","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=341319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}