An elderly man was thrown off his e-scooter and died after a head-on collision with a cyclist in downtown Brooklyn Monday, police said.
Thomas Bakas, 77, was riding his stand-up electric scooter in the bike lane on Schermerhorn Street near the Smith Street intersection around 2:20 p.m. when he smashed into a bicyclist heading the opposite direction, authorities said.
The cyclist, 47, was previously riding outside the designated bike lane and attempted to reenter it by careening between two parked, unoccupied cars — as Bakas tried to pass as well, cops said.
The impact caused both men, who were not wearing helmets, to fall to the ground, police…
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