Turning Tractor-Trailer Driver Killed E-Bike Rider in Brooklyn
The official record says one cyclist was killed at Pennsylvania Avenue and Linden Boulevard, and police told amNY a 52-year-old Freightliner driver turning right hit e-bike rider Jarrod Little.
What We Know
Jarrod Little was riding an e-bike south on Pennsylvania Avenue at about 4:25 p.m. on Aug. 30, 2022, when a 52-year-old tractor-trailer driver turned right onto Linden Boulevard in East New York. Police told amNY the turning driver hit Little, ejecting him and causing head and body injuries; he was taken to Brookdale Hospital and pronounced dead. The official record lists one cyclist killed, a diesel tractor-truck and an e-bike, and a view obstruction or limitation as a crash factor. The truck driver stayed at the scene, and police did not immediately make an arrest.
A right turn at Pennsylvania and Linden
The official crash record places the crash at Pennsylvania Avenue and Linden Boulevard in Brooklyn at 4:25 p.m. on Aug. 30, 2022, with one cyclist killed and no other injuries recorded.
Police told amNY that Jarrod Little, 43, was riding south on Pennsylvania Avenue on an electric folding bike when a 52-year-old Freightliner driver turned right from southbound Pennsylvania Avenue onto Linden Boulevard and hit him. Paramedics took Little to Brookdale Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Jarrod Little was remembered by his parents
The Daily News reported that Little lived in Ocean Hill with his parents and had started a company promoting local hip-hop and R&B artists. His mother, Jenice Little, said he regularly rode a bicycle with pedals and an electric battery.
A wide East New York intersection with a fatal history
amNY described Pennsylvania Avenue and Linden Boulevard as two busy thoroughfares and reported that, since August 2011, 234 collisions had injured 376 people at the intersection, citing Crash Mapper. The outlet also reported that a 62-year-old woman was killed there by a hit-and-run driver earlier in 2022.
Streetsblog reported that Transportation Alternatives criticized the absence of turn-calming measures, leading pedestrian intervals and bike lanes at the intersection. The group called Little’s death the result of inequitable street design.
No immediate arrest was reported
amNY reported that the 52-year-old driver stayed at the scene and that police did not make an arrest. The Daily News similarly reported that the driver stayed and did not immediately face charges.