Sadly, Chicago saw its first bike fatality of 2025 on Memorial Day, when a Hummer driver fatally struck Yader Castaneda, 18, while he was riding an electric Divvy bike in the Loop.
According to the initial Chicago Police Department statement, on Monday, May 26, at around 4:53 a.m., Castaneda was cycling on Randolph Street. As he crossed Michigan Avenue, he was involved in a collision with the motorist, 65, whom the statement said was traveling “southbound, through a green light.”
The bike rider was taken to Northwestern Hospital in critical condition, according to the CPD. He was later pronounced dead. According to the Cook County medical examiner’s office, he lived in southwest-suburban Plano…