Meeker Avenue continues to prove deadly. Last week, a truck struck and killed a young woman riding a Lime moped on Tuesday, November 2.
Molly Pearson, a 24-year-old Manhattan resident, died four days after being badly injured when a box truck slammed into her scooter and then ran her over, NBC reported.
According to NBC, Pearson was thrown off her scooter near Meeker and Skillman Avenues shortly before 11:30 a.m. on November 2nd. She…
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Could not have been Meeker and Skillman, they run same way and are four blocks from each other!
Seriously, Maria? Just look at a map before commenting.
Poor girl was overtaken as the truck branched off of Meeker onto a subsidiary road. This tells me she was likely riding along on the edge of the road allowing trucks to pass her. This is what I keep seeing lime and revel drivers doing and it is not correct operating procedure. If your vehicle has a license plate on it then you belong in the center of your lane. Please stop riding mopeds like a bicycle this is how you get hurt or killed and it is so sad to see a lovely young woman destroyed by some demented box truck driver who was “just doing his job.” Claim your lane! These scooters need to be classified as full motorcycles and then they would need a motorcycle license which would require proper training. As it is you can drive a light scooter with just a driver’s license.
If they were both going the same direction and the truck hit her while turning right than it seems she must have been trying to pass it on the right which is a big no-no. One of the first things you should learn about biking or driving in a city is to never attempt to pass a truck or bus on the right.
You’re acting like you know what happened but you don’t have any evidence.