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The woman killed in a scooter crash on the Upper West Side last month has been identified by her family.
The crash happened at Amsterdam Avenue and West 60th Street at around 10:35 a.m. on July 30. A preliminary investigation determined the woman was traveling northbound on Amsterdam Avenue when a 34-year-old man driving a Tesla westbound on West 60th Street collided with her, an NYPD officer told ILTUWS at the time. EMS took her to Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital in critical condition, where she was later pronounced dead. The driver remained on scene, as we reported that morning.
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Police have not publicly released her name. But an obituary posted by Perry Funeral Home in Lynbrook identifies her as Doreen Marie Meyers, 49, and the picture it paints is of a woman who packed an enormous amount of living into those years.Meyers grew up on Long Island and attended Our Lady of Peace School and Lynbrook High School before going on to the University of New Hampshire and The New School. She joined the Peace Corps after graduating from UNH and served in the Philippines. Back in the United States, she spent more than 23 years working as a personal assistant, building what her family described as a countless network of people who became extended family.
She was also a serious athlete. Meyers was a triathlete and an avid runner who finished more than 14 marathons, including New York, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, London, Berlin and the Marine Corps race in Washington, D.C. She skied, she knitted, she went to the theater constantly, and she traveled relentlessly, spending months crossing the country with her dog Buddy and, more recently, going to India to help vaccinate wild dogs while watching for snow leopards in the mountains. Summers meant the beach in Southampton.
Meyers was a Manhattan resident, and the Hell’s Kitchen newsletter w42st wrote that she was a familiar face to many people across that neighborhood.
She was predeceased by her parents, Eileen Keenan and Lawrence Meyers, and by Buddy, her companion of 14 years. She’s survived by her siblings Tim, Debby, Jim and Steve, and by eight nieces and nephews her family says she loved deeply and spoiled with generosity. Her obituary remembers her as someone who said what she believed, wanted to make a difference and often did so without anyone knowing, and who was, above all, “a whole lot of fun.”
A visitation was held on Aug. 5 at Perry Funeral Home, followed by a Mass on Aug. 6 at Our Lady of Peace RC Church in Valley Stream. In lieu of flowers, her family has asked that donations go to Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy, which funds research toward ending Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
Her death came during a sharp rise in crashes involving electric bikes and scooters citywide. Police data cited by the New York Times counted 560 collisions involving e-bikes and 795 involving stand-up e-scooters through the third week of July, both up 28 percent from the same period last year. At least 20 riders have died in such collisions so far this year, according to the Department of Transportation, up from 13 at this point in 2025.
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Five days after the Amsterdam Avenue crash, City Council leaders gathered outside City Hall to announce 17 proposed bills meant to regulate electric bikes and scooters and get illegal ones off the street. The package would ban the sale of certain faster e-bikes that are currently legal, require delivery companies to register for commercial licenses, stiffen penalties for riders who flee the scene of a crash, and create a trade-in program to swap illegal devices for safer ones. Council Speaker Julie Menin said the city can’t keep waiting for tragedies before acting on street safety. A hearing is scheduled for Sept. 30.Much of that debate has centered on reckless riders and illegal vehicles. In a majority of serious crashes involving these devices, though, it’s the rider who gets struck by the driver of a car.
The investigation into the crash is ongoing.
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