A bicyclist was pinned beneath an MTA bus Wednesday at the intersection of Pelham Parkway and White Plains Road in Allerton, prompting an emergency response after a 911 call reported a man struck by a bus. Crews responded at 11:49 a.m. and worked to remove the man from beneath the vehicle before he was transported to Jacobi Hospital. His condition remains unknown, and the cause of the collision is unclear.
FDNY reported the bicyclist had been pinned under the MTA bus, according to News12 New York, whose reporting on the incident forms the core account of what happened at the scene. Emergency crews responding to the 911 call found the man trapped and worked to free him before rushing him to the hospital.
A Corridor With a Documented Danger History
The intersection sits along a stretch of White Plains Road that transportation officials have flagged for years as unusually hazardous. The corridor recorded 217 crash injuries between 2019 and 2023 on the mile-long segment running from Burke Avenue to Pelham Parkway, a toll that led the city’s Department of Transportation to target the area in May 2024 for protected bike lane extensions beneath the elevated subway tracks, according to a report from Streetsblog.
City safety data from 2017 to 2021 had already classified White Plains Road as a Vision Zero priority corridor, with 5.4 pedestrians killed or severely injured per mile. The same data found that half of all pedestrian collisions along the strip involved drivers failing to yield while turning, a pattern the outlet’s reporting connects to the elevated subway pillars that can obscure sightlines for turning drivers and bicyclists alike…