A Subaru driver turned left during a fatal Bronx motorcycle crash, police say.
A 30-year-old Subaru driver turned left from Broadway’s right lane as motorcyclist Douglas L. Smith, 45, rode north near Broadway and West 261st Street around 1 a.m., the Daily News reported; News12’s October 1 publication and early-Thursday account support an inferred date of October 1, 2026.
Location reported in Open Data.
What We Know
The Daily News, citing police, reported that a 30-year-old driver was heading north on Broadway in a 2018 Subaru Outback and turned left from the right lane onto West 261st Street as Smith rode north in the left lane on a 2007 Honda motorcycle. News12 reported that Smith hit the Subaru’s right side, was thrown onto the pavement and suffered major trauma. Both outlets reported that he died at Saint Barnabas Hospital. News12 said the driver stayed at the scene and that no charges had been filed as of Thursday evening.
Police reporting describes a left turn during the collision.
The Daily News, citing police, reported that a 30-year-old man driving a 2018 Subaru Outback was heading north on Broadway and turned left from the right lane onto West 261st Street. Smith was riding north in the left lane on a 2007 Honda motorcycle.
News12 reported that Smith hit the Subaru’s right side. Police said the impact threw him from the motorcycle onto the pavement, where he suffered major trauma.
Both reports place the crash around 1 a.m. early Thursday. The October 1, 2026, incident date is inferred from News12’s publication date and its account that the crash happened early Thursday.
Reports place the crash near the Broadway intersection.
News12 located the crash near Broadway and West 261st Street in Riverdale. The Daily News described it as at the corner in North Riverdale. The reports differ in how precisely they place the crash; neither establishes the exact collision point.
Smith died after being taken to the hospital.
News12 reported that Douglas L. Smith, 45, lived in Yonkers and died at Saint Barnabas Hospital after paramedics took him there. The Daily News also reported that he died at St. Barnabas Hospital.
News12 said the Subaru driver stayed at the scene and that no charges had been filed as of Thursday evening. The Daily News reported that there were no arrests.