A 26-year-old woman died on Saturday evening as a result of a scooter accident on Franklin Street, multiple news outlets report.
Nina Kapur, who worked at CBS2 as a news reporter, was riding as a passenger on a Revel scooter when she was ‘thrown’ to the ground after the driver, a 26-year-old male, swerved for ‘unknown reasons’ near the intersection of Franklin and India Streets on Saturday at…
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So damn sad to read… As a local who has witnessed several accidents/close calls on Franklin Street (a…supposedly bike friendly road??), it doesn’t come to me as a surprise.. With this massive/chaotic influx of development along the waterfront, comes the traffic and the trucks + commercial vehicles/etc,etc…
Safety improvements MUST be FAST TRACKED & PRIORITIZED here or this will not be an isolated incident.
Hyper development needs Hyper safety!!!.. I will not forgive these future residents for their complacency towards this issue unless it changes, soon! As a community, we must stand up to this! —Elephant in the room Greenpoint!
I am a senior living a few block away from this accident. Joggers, mopeds, bikes etc are more of a problem for seniors than cars and trucks.
Cars and trucks by and large obey the rules, the others less so.
Also, in the street dining is another tragedy waiting to happen. They are supposed to have concrete barriers but most of the ones around here have shoddy protection that a stray car or truck can easily knock down.
RIP to the family.