Loved ones remember Queens woman fatally struck by e-bike in Brooklyn
Police said it was just after 7 a.m. on Monday when 60-year-old Theresa Valenti collided with a 41-year-old man and a 39-year-old woman, who were riding a moped on Flushing Avenue near N Elliot Place.
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Loved ones are remembering a Queens woman who was fatally struck by an E-bike in Clinton Hill.
Police said it was just after 7 a.m. on Monday when 60-year-old Theresa Valenti collided with a 41-year-old man and a 39-year-old woman, who were riding a moped on Flushing Avenue near N Elliot Place.
According to investigators, the e-bike riders were traveling westbound in the designated bike lane when Valenti walked off her MTA bus and attempted to cross through the area.
Valenti, who worked at the National Elevator Cab and Door Corporation, never made it to her 8 a.m. meeting at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
“Nobody’s heard from [Valenti],” said Randy Lott, one of the victim’s coworker. “We start the meeting. We get the call.”
It was not immediately clear exactly how the incident happened.
Valenti was taken to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
The moped riders were taken to a hospital and are stable.
A News 12 crew visited the area on Wednesday and saw that the painted bike lane ends at the bus stop, then it continues again after the bus stop. There is also no signal or signage indicating who has the right of way.
Brooklyn Council Member Lincoln Restler represents the area and posted on X that there are “too many crashes on this stretch” and that there “needs to be a better design to protect pedestrians.”
“There’s a lot of questions,” said Lott. “[Valenti’s] family wants answers.”
As loved ones continue to demand answers, they remembered Valenti as kind, funny and dedicated to her team and customers.
“She did a lot of customer interface; and without fail, every single customer we spoke to said she was wonderful,” said John Farella, president of the National Elevator Cab and Door Corporation.
“We call her ‘work mom,’” said Lott. “Literally everyone here, people who are probably older than her consider her like a work mom.”
