Statement from Transportation Alternatives after Car Driver Hits a Father and Son on their Bikes in Bed-Stuy, One Block East of Bedford Avenue

The boy was seriously injured and taken to the hospital on a stretcher.

The crash site on Nostrand Avenue is one block away from Bedford Avenue. Mayor Adams is trying to remove the newly installed safety improvements on Bedford Avenue.

Prior to the Bedford safety improvements, two pedestrians were killed along the same stretch of Bedford Avenue in 2024 alone.

Traffic violence killed 36 pedestrians and 10 people on bikes across Brooklyn in 2024, and 19 pedestrians across Brooklyn in 2025.

BROOKLYN, NY —  On Saturday morning, a car driver allegedly ran a red light and then hit a father and his son who were riding their bikes. The boy was taken to the hospital on a stretcher with serious injuries. 

This crash occurred less than a block from the Bedford Avenue safety improvements. Less than two weeks ago, the Adams administration announced plans to remove three blocks of safety upgrades on the street. Transportation Alternatives and a Brooklyn family immediately sued to save the safety project, and a ‘Temporary Restraining Order’ (TRO) was ordered by a judge until a scheduled hearing in August. Last week, former Brooklyn Democratic Party Boss Frank Seddio filed to intervene in the lawsuit on the side of the City, and the judge moved the hearing date up to July 1, shortening the TRO by over a month. 

The Bedford Avenue safety improvements are working — since the redesign, fatalities, serious injuries, and total injuries have fallen in the first five months of 2025 from the same period in 2024. Pedestrian injuries fell 10% and motorist injuries fell by 42%. Two pedestrians were killed by drivers in 2024, but no one has been killed on the corridor in 2025. Serious injuries dropped from two last year to one this year.

There is footage of the aftermath of the crash available here. (This video includes an injured child).

Statement from Ben Furnas, Executive Director at Transportation Alternatives:

“We are heartbroken to hear that a child was sent to the hospital after being hit by a reckless driver. These are exactly the types of crashes and injuries we fight to prevent every day. 

“Unfortunately, the Adams administration is working to make our streets even more deadly than they are today. Instead of improving and expanding safety projects, they’re working to tear them out. Instead of widening the protected bike lane network so this family had a safe path south in Brooklyn — as there are no south-bound protected bike lanes in this area — he’s working around the clock to illegally rip up the one and only protected bike lane in this entire Council District. 

“New York City deserves a mayor who puts the safety of families above politics.”