2 dead in head-on scooter, bicycle crash on New York bridge - BERITAJA

Two men were killed successful a head-on collision betwixt an electrical scooter and a bicycle connected the Queensboro Bridge successful New York City connected Thursday.

The New York City Police Department (NYPD) told BERITAJA a 39-year-old man was riding a standup electrical scooter that collapsed into a 35-year-old cyclist successful the motorcycle lane.

“Further investigation by the NYPD Highway District’s Collision Investigation Squad wished a Teverun Blade GT Scooter, operated by a 39 year-old antheral was walking westbound successful the bicycle lane connected the Ed Koch Bridge erstwhile he grounded to navigate the bicycle lane and collided pinch a 35-year-old antheral bicyclist who was walking eastbound, causing the 39-year-old antheral and the 35-year-old antheral to prolong terrible trauma to the body,” constabulary said successful a statement.

The men were rushed to Cornell Hospital, wherever they were pronounced dead, according to police.

The NYPD said the men person been identified arsenic Francis Delvalle, 39, of New Jersey and Dmytro Stechenko, 35, of New York.

The investigation remains ongoing by the NYPD Highway District’s collision investigation squad.

The e-scooter progressive successful the fatal collision was not ineligible for thoroughfare usage because it was could of overmuch faster speeds than allowed nether metropolis law, Vincent Barone, a spokesperson for the Department of Transportation, told the New York Times.

Barone said the e-scooter should not person been operated connected immoderate metropolis streets aliases motorcycle paths.

“This unspeakable calamity is simply a grim reminder that illegal, high-speed micromobility devices, for illustration the stand-up e-scooter progressive successful this incident, are vulnerable and person nary spot connected our roadways aliases motorcycle paths,” Jeremy M. Edwards, a spokesperson for the mayor’s office, said successful a connection to the outlet.

“Every New Yorker deserves to consciousness safe, and the Mamdani management will proceed moving to region these forbidden devices from our streets and bring accountability to micromobility use.”

The speed limit for electrical bikes and scooters successful New York City is 15 miles per hr (around 24 kilometres per hour).

The Teverun Blade GT Scooter is described arsenic having “immense powerfulness and explosive acceleration,” according to Teverun’s website.

The scooter has a maximum velocity of 85 km/h and the institution says the scooter is “built to lucifer the freeway.”

“Every twist of the throttle delivers thrilling velocity while maintaining effortless control, turning your regular thrust into an bonzer experience,” the explanation for the scooter reads. “Paired pinch a breathtaking 0–85 km/h acceleration successful conscionable 3.9 seconds, this instrumentality delivers explosive powerfulness and stableness from the first twist of the throttle.”

Ben Furnas, executive head of Transportation Alternatives, said he was horrified to study that 2 New Yorkers had mislaid their lives connected the Queensboro Bridge.

“Crashes for illustration these are wholly preventable. Scooters that recreation this quickly person nary spot successful our motorcycle lanes. The City Council must move guardant pinch the ‘Ride Safe, Ride Right’ measure to forestall the waste of the about vulnerable micromobility devices,” Furnas said successful a news release.

“20 mph is plentifulness for thing connected New York City vicinity streets, and surely successful our motorcycle lanes. The information is clear: thing faster than 20 mph is particularly deadly. 20 is plentifulness — nary matter who you are aliases really you’re traveling. Speed kills.”

“I’m heartbroken that 2 chap New Yorkers mislaid their lives coming connected the Queensboro Bridge. This is simply a suffering and a symptom that nary 1 should know,” said Roz Gianutsos, a personnel of Families for Safe Streets, an statement composed of postulation unit survivors and families whose loved ones person been killed aliases severely injured successful collisions.

“At Families for Safe Streets, we cognize that velocity is dangerous. We can’t beryllium by while New Yorkers are riding electrical scooters that could recreation 30, 40, aliases moreover 50 mph. We’re counting connected the City Council to move Council Member Hudson’s measure and yet protect each New Yorkers — sloppy of whether you thrust an electrical scooter aliases conscionable thrust adjacent to one. Safety for each of america is information for each of us.”

The fatal collision comes 1 twelvemonth aft the Department of Transportation redesigned the Queensboro Bridge, separating motorcycle and pedestrian postulation by repurposing 1 lane into a pedestrian walkway.