"According to the NYPD, at around 1:10 a.m., the rider of a Fly E-Bike vehicle was headed southbound on Ashland Place when he was struck by the 21-year-old driver of an ambulance that was turning onto Willoughby Street near Brooklyn Hospital. Ray Wilkerson-Lynwood, 65, of the nearby Farragut Houses, suffered severe head trauma. He died later at Methodist Hospital, police said."
"The intersection of Ashland Place and Willoughby Street in Downtown Brooklyn is a chaotic crossing where drivers, cyclists and pedestrians are always a hair's length away from disaster. There are multiple parking lots for the hospital as well as for Long Island University, and car traffic is heavy. The northbound side of Ashland supports a two-way protected bike lane, a row of parked cars, and a lane for car travel."
An ambulance struck a moped rider at about 1:10 a.m. on Ashland Place while turning onto Willoughby Street near Brooklyn Hospital. The rider, Ray Wilkerson-Lynwood, 65, suffered severe head trauma and died later at Methodist Hospital. The ambulance driver, 21, and two EMTs were lightly injured and taken to Brooklyn Hospital; EMTs had been canvassing for a male in distress. Initial reports described the vehicle as an “e-bike,” but a Sanitation supervisor said it was a motorcycle. Snow narrowed the bike lane with mounds, forcing some mopeds into the southbound lane at a busy, chaotic intersection with heavy traffic. City stats show 11 crashes at that intersection in 2025.
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