SUV driver hit and killed e-bike rider on Hollis Court Boulevard
A 62-year-old driver in a 2015 Nissan Rogue hit 55-year-old e-bike rider Zhao Feng Zhen at Hollis Court Boulevard and 50th Avenue about 2:18 p.m. on July 31, and EMS took her to NewYork-Presbyterian Queens Hospital, where she died.
What We Know
Zhao Feng Zhen, 55, was riding an e-bike south on Hollis Court Boulevard near 50th Avenue at about 2:18 p.m. on July 31 when a 62-year-old driver in a 2015 Nissan Rogue hit her, according to police accounts cited by local news. The city crash record lists a fatal crash there involving an SUV and an e-bike; it records the e-bike rider going straight and the SUV driver making a left turn. EMS took Zhen, a Bayside resident, to NewYork-Presbyterian Queens Hospital, where she was pronounced dead. Press accounts reported that no arrests had been made and that the NYPD Highway District's Collision Investigation Squad was investigating. The official record lists the SUV driver's sex as male, while several news accounts described the driver as a woman.
A southbound e-bike ride ended in a fatal crash.
The city record places the crash at 2:18 p.m. on July 31 at Hollis Court Boulevard and 50th Avenue and records one cyclist killed. It lists an SUV driver traveling south and making a left turn, and an e-bike rider traveling south and going straight ahead.
Police accounts cited by local news said a 62-year-old driver in a 2015 Nissan Rogue hit Zhao Feng Zhen, 55. News reports said she was thrown onto the pavement, suffered severe chest trauma and was taken to NewYork-Presbyterian Queens Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
Sources agreed on the intersection but used different neighborhood names.
The official record places the crash at Hollis Court Boulevard and 50th Avenue in Queens. News accounts all put the crash on or near Hollis Court Boulevard and 50th Avenue, but described the area variously as Auburndale, Queens Village and Flushing.
For public reference, the shared location across the record and news reports is the intersection of Hollis Court Boulevard and 50th Avenue.
Zhao Feng Zhen was identified as a Bayside resident.
News reports identified the person killed as Zhao Feng Zhen, 55, of Bayside. The official record identifies the person killed as a 55-year-old female bicyclist riding an e-bike.
The driver was described in news reports as 62 years old. The official record lists the SUV driver's sex as male, while amNY, Eastern Queens Greenway and Epoch Times described the driver as a woman.
The record lists an SUV and an e-bike moving south.
The city record identifies the larger vehicle as a 2015 Nissan SUV and the other vehicle as a Speedrid e-bike. Press reports described the larger vehicle as a 2015 Nissan Rogue.
The record says the SUV driver was making a left turn before the crash and the e-bike rider was going straight ahead, with both listed as traveling south.
Police said the driver stayed and investigators continued the case.
The Daily News reported that the driver stayed at the scene. amNY, Eastern Queens Greenway and Epoch Times reported that no arrests had been made and that the NYPD Highway District's Collision Investigation Squad was investigating.
Advocates pointed to road design and enforcement questions.
Eastern Queens Greenway argued after the crash that wide lanes, limited traffic controls and cut-through traffic make this part of Hollis Court Boulevard dangerous for people riding bikes. The post blamed street design and enforcement failures; those claims were presented as advocacy analysis, not as findings in the official record.