{"id":1052134,"date":"2026-09-09T02:43:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T02:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1052134\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T02:43:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T02:43:25","slug":"e-scooter-operator-77-killed-in-head-on-crash-in-brooklyn-bike-lane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1052134\/","title":{"rendered":"E-scooter operator, 77, killed in head-on crash in Brooklyn bike lane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 77-year-old man riding an e-scooter in a Brooklyn bike lane was killed in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/site\/nypd\/stats\/traffic-data\/traffic-fatalities.page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">head-on crash<\/a> with a bicyclist, cops said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Bakas was riding his stand-up scooter in the two-way bike lane on Schermerhorn St. in downtown Brooklyn when he collided with the 47-year-old bicyclist heading in the opposite direction near Smith St. around 2:20 p.m. Monday, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The cyclist struck Bakas as he merged into the bike lane after darting between two parked cars, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>Both men were thrown in the crash. Neither of them wore helmets.<\/p>\n<p>Medics rushed Bakas to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyp.org\/locations\/brooklyn\/nyp-brooklyn-methodist-hospital\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Presbyterian-Brooklyn Methodist Hospital<\/a>, where he died.<\/p>\n<p>The bicyclist stayed at the scene. There were no immediate arrests.<\/p>\n<p>Bakas lived about three blocks from where the crash occurred, officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 77-year-old man riding an e-scooter in a Brooklyn bike lane was killed in a head-on crash with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1052135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,2451,3059,5295,1370,728,405,403,5294,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,5293,5321,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-1052134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","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-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117238786183689095","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1052134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1052135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1052134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1052134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1052134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}