{"id":368252,"date":"2026-10-08T21:50:43","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T21:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/368252\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T21:50:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T21:50:43","slug":"man-riding-illegally-modified-e-bike-killed-in-bronx-collision-with-pickup-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/368252\/","title":{"rendered":"Man riding illegally modified e-bike killed in Bronx collision with pickup truck"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 50-year-old man riding an illegally modified e-bike<\/a> died after failing to stop at a red light and crashing into a pickup truck at a Bronx intersection, police said Thursday.<\/p>\n

The victim was riding his e-bike<\/a> on E. 145th St. when he entered the intersection at Brook Ave. in Mott Haven against a red light and slammed into the front driver\u2019s side door of a Ford F-150 pickup truck heading south on Brook Ave. around 8:20 a.m. Wednesday, cops said.<\/p>\n

He was thrown from the bike onto the pavement and suffered a severe head injury, police said. Medics rushed him to Lincoln Hospital, where he died. His name was not immediately disclosed.<\/p>\n

The 55-year-old truck driver stayed at the scene following the crash. Police said he had a green light as he passed through the intersection.<\/p>\n

Officials said the victim\u2019s e-bike had been illegally modified to go faster than initially designed.<\/p>\n

Late last month, the City Council held a marathon hearing to discuss 23 bills about e-bikes and delivery workers who use e-bikes. Among the bills was a proposal to outlaw the use of e-bikes that travel faster than 20 mph<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The hearing was held just two days after a 50-year-old woman riding her e-bike died after she collided with a dump truck on W. 34th St. near Seventh Ave., just down the street from Madison Square Garden and the Empire State Building, cops said.<\/p>\n

On Sept. 18, 15-year-old Daria Serkov died when her Citi Bike e-bike was struck by a turning Peterbilt truck at the corner of First Ave. and E. 14th St<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Daria was seated behind her 16-year-old friend, who was operating the e-bike. The Citi Bike rental agreement requires riders to be at least 16 years old and states the bikes are for use by one rider only, officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 50-year-old man riding an illegally modified e-bike died after failing to stop at a red light and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-368252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","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-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368252","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=368252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}