Jean, 43, an avid Upper West Side runner, is currently in a medically induced coma after a severe collision with a reckless e-biker in NYC. The impact was so substantial that surgeons had to remove a portion of her skull during emergency cranial surgery. 

On July 7, she was jogging in Central Park on West Drive, near West 64th Street, at around 4:30 p.m., when an e-biker, a 26-year-old man, who was allegedly traveling the wrong way, struck her from behind. Hoon Chan Sim, who witnessed the incident unfold, said the blame rested entirely with the e-biker, who was not using the lane designated for bikes. 

According to Sim, the rider was traveling at high speed in the wrong direction within the running lane and struck Jean from behind, causing her to fall heavily and land on her head. 

“He was going the wrong way on the running track,” Sim told the New York Post. “I heard a really loud screeching noise. My guess is that he was going pretty fast.” 

Sim said that, based on the appearance of his bike, the rider could be a delivery courier and described him as lacking empathy for Jean’s condition. He allegedly tried to push past bystanders and flee the scene before the crowd that had quickly gathered forced him to stay and wait for first responders. 

“The saddest thing was that he didn’t look at the victim. He was trying to get away from it but people gathered around him so he couldn’t.”

“Jesus, I mean, the woman was bleeding out of ears,” Sim added. “She was moaning, and people were tending to her, like, saying, ‘Are you okay?’ and then she was just moaning all the time on the sidewalk. She was pretty much unconscious, non-responsive.”

Emergency responders rushed Jean to NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center. Though police initially listed her in “stable condition,” Jean’s niece Brandi Wiltse confirmed Jean remains unresponsive even after more than a week has passed since the accident.

Because she was unconscious and carried no identification, she was admitted as a “Jane Doe.” Her injuries were extensive, requiring three blood transfusions, surgery for a broken elbow, and skin grafts for deep lacerations, Wiltse told the NY Post. 

Jean’s parents are traveling from Georgia, prepared to stay in New York indefinitely, remaining by her bedside so Jean is not alone when she wakes from her coma. 

Despite the severity of the crash, the electric bike rider is not facing any criminal consequences. Police confirmation of the lack of charges has sparked outrage from Jean’s family, with Wiltse stating that the city can “absolutely” do more to hold reckless cyclists accountable. 

“After this, the fact that there is no accountability, there’s no registration requirement, there’s no insurance … There should be laws in place,” she said. 

The NYPD confirmed that the e-bike rider stayed at the scene, but they declined to say if he was ticketed. Wiltse revealed that police told her they are no longer actively investigating the crash, prompting her to demand they look into witness reports that the cyclist was speeding the wrong way. 

The lack of criminal charges stemmed from a controversial executive order signed in March by Mayor Zohran Mamdani, which ended criminal enforcement for low-level e-bike violations, including riding the wrong way, limiting police to issuing civil citations. 

Critics argue that Mayor Mamdani’s policy has essentially “legalized” reckless e-bike riding. The order is now the subject of a lawsuit led by City Council Member Frank Morano and several victims, amid a rise in e-bike accidents across New York City. 

Disclaimer: The Inquisitr could not independently confirm all facts of this incident and is reporting based on the information available within the public record.