A 67-year-old man riding a stand-up electric scooter was killed early Friday when a Dodge SUV struck him in the 3300 block of West Peterson Avenue in North Park, police said. The crash happened around 4:35 a.m. at the intersection, and the man was rushed to a hospital where he later died.
According to the Chicago Sun-Times, the man was in the intersection on his scooter around 4:35 a.m. when the SUV hit him. ABC7 Chicago reports that the scooter rider was transported to St. Francis Hospital, where he was later pronounced dead. Police have not identified the victim.
The WGN-TV seed report identifies the SUV driver as a 44-year-old man who was heading westbound through the area at the time of the collision, though that detail was not independently corroborated by the other outlets reviewed. Chicago police told ABC7 that the CPD Major Accident Investigation Unit is now investigating the crash.
Conflicting Accounts of the Citation
Reports differ on exactly why police cited the SUV driver. The Sun-Times says the Dodge driver was cited for speeding, while ABC7's report states the driver was cited for failure to reduce speed. The discrepancy between the two accounts has not been resolved in available reporting, and it remains unclear which citation is accurate.
No further details about the sequence of events, who had the right of way, or any additional charges have been made public. The investigation remains ongoing, per the same CPD statement cited by ABC7.
Second Fatal Scooter Crash in Two Days
The North Park crash marked the second fatal electric scooter collision in Chicago in as many days, the Sun-Times reports. A day earlier, on Thursday, a 39-year-old man riding a scooter was killed in Bridgeport after colliding with a Chicago police vehicle around 12:30 a.m. in the 3200 block of South Princeton Avenue, according to Hoodline's earlier coverage. That rider was taken to Stroger Hospital and pronounced dead, and both officers inside the patrol car were also taken to a hospital following the crash.
The back-to-back deaths come even as citywide numbers have trended downward overall. A Streetsblog Chicago analysis of CDOT crash data found that Chicago recorded four bicycle and scooter deaths in 2024, six fewer than the ten recorded in 2023, and that traffic fatalities overall fell 30 percent between 2021 and 2025 while deaths among bicyclists and scooter riders fell 60 percent over that same stretch. Earlier this year, Hoodline reported that through April, ten pedestrians and four bicyclists or motorized scooter users had died in Chicago traffic crashes, compared with no bike or e-scooter deaths over the same period in 2025.
No additional information about the circumstances of Friday's crash, including who had the right of way or whether further charges are expected, has been released. Police have asked anyone with information to come forward as the Major Accident Investigation Unit continues its work.
