A teenage scooter rider was killed late Sunday after colliding with a car at an Upper East Side intersection.
Police say a 19-year-old man was riding a gas-powered scooter south on 2nd Avenue just before midnight on July 14 when he collided with a Volvo SUV being driven eastbound on 79th Street. The crash caused the man to be ejected from the scooter and slam into a light pole.
EMS took the man, who has yet to be identified, to Weill Cornell Medical Center but he could not be saved. The 26-year-old driver of the Volvo, Shraga Orgad of Brooklyn, was treated for minor injuries, police said. He was later arrested and charged with driving without a license. The intersection was previously the site of a crash into the facade of a nearby building back in 2014, which left two people injured., traffic crashes had killed 136 people in the Big Apple so far in 2024, a 5% jump from the same time last year.space’: Bronx Museum of the Arts breaks ground on $33 million renovation
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