{"id":351198,"date":"2026-09-19T16:56:45","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T16:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/351198\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T16:56:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T16:56:45","slug":"teenage-cyclist-killed-in-east-village-crash-nypd-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/351198\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenage cyclist killed in East Village crash, NYPD says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A teenage girl was killed and another was injured after they collided with a truck while riding a bike in the East Village on Friday, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p>It happened around 9 p.m. at East 14th Street and First Avenue, close to Stuyvesant Town, the NYPD said.<\/p>\n<p>Police said a 2021 Peterbilt commercial truck, driven by a 58-year-old man, was making a right turn onto northbound First Avenue when it collided with the bike.<\/p>\n<p>The bike was also turning north onto First Avenue, according to police. The 15-year-old girl and 16-year-old girl on the bike were both rushed to NYC Health + Hospitals\/Bellevue.<\/p>\n<p>The 15-year-old girl, identified by police as Daria Serkov, died at the hospital, the NYPD said. The other teenager is in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>The driver remained at the scene and no arrests have been made, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Assembly Member Keith Powers, who represents the area where the crash happened, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KeithPowersNYC\/status\/2101300668753403911\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">wrote on X<\/a>: &#8220;Absolutely horrifying. My thoughts are with the two victims and their families.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We must do everything we can to increase safety on our streets and ensure nothing like this ever happens again,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teenage girl was killed and another was injured after they collided with a truck while riding a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[387,25,55625,75,84,83,9,24,12,63,308,380,27],"class_list":["post-351198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-app-public-safety","tag-app-top-stories","tag-erin-pflaumer","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-public-safety","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351198","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=351198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}