A man riding a two-wheeled device died at Lincoln Hospital after colliding with a Ford pickup truck in Mott Haven, according to NYPD. Emergency personnel responded around 8:30 a.m. Wednesday to East 145th Street and Brook Avenue, where the man was found lying unconscious on the pavement.
Investigators say the man sustained trauma to the head and body in the collision, according to News12 | Bronx. EMS rushed him to Lincoln Hospital, where he later died. Citizen App footage reviewed by the outlet shows paramedics performing CPR on the man at the scene before he was transported.
Police say the truck driver stayed at the crash scene following the collision, according to NYPD. Notably, News12's own headline on the story described the man as in critical condition, even as the outlet's reported details describe his death at Lincoln Hospital — a discrepancy that remains unresolved in the available reporting.
A Familiar Intersection for Mott Haven Traffic Deaths
This is not the first fatal crash to strike close to this stretch of the Bronx. Back in May, a 40-year-old man died after being struck by two vehicles in Mott Haven, according to a separate News 12 | Long Island report. In that case, detectives said a tractor-trailer struck the man at East 138th Street and Bruckner Boulevard around 7 p.m. before fleeing the scene; a taxi then struck the victim shortly afterward, and the taxi driver stayed on scene. The man was taken to Lincoln Hospital, where he was pronounced dead — the same hospital where Wednesday's victim later died.
Bronx Traffic Deaths Drew Advocacy Attention in Recent Years
Traffic safety advocacy group Transportation Alternatives has previously flagged Mott Haven as a site of deadly crashes involving cyclists and other vulnerable road users, citing the 2022 death of 26-year-old e-bike rider Victoriano Angeles in the neighborhood. The group said that year marked the Bronx's most dangerous period since the launch of Vision Zero, with 28 people killed in crashes, and that 112 people had been killed walking, riding, or driving citywide, a 29 percent increase from 2018. Those figures date to 2022 and do not reflect current citywide totals.
No further details about the identity of Wednesday's victim, the exact circumstances of the collision, or any summonses issued have been released. Hoodline will update this story as more information becomes available.
