Man Charged In Connection With UWS Scooter Crash Death of Actor

Upper West Side NY

06 August, 2021

9:40 AM

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UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — Police have charged a man in connection with the death of "Gone Girl" actor Lisa Banes on the Upper West Side. Banes, 65, died in June after getting hit by a scooter while crossing a street on the Upper West Side. On Thursday, police arrested UWS resident Brian Boyd, 26, and charged him with leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death and failure to yield to a pedestrian. An investigation by the NYPD Highway District's Collision Investigation Squad found that Banes was attempting to cross Amsterdam Avenue, from west to east inside the north crosswalk at West 64th Street, when a scooter traveling north ran a red light and struck her before taking off, according to police. Banes appeared in numerous television shows and movies, including "Gone Girl" in 2014 and "Cocktail" with Tom Cruise in 1988. On television, she had roles on "Nashville," "Madam Secretary," "Masters of Sex" and "NCIS." Days after her death, local officials gathered at the crash site to call for the passage of legislation that would increase the penalties for conducting a hit-and-run with an electric scooter. Currently, the penalty for leaving the scene of an electric scooter crash without reporting it to police is a violation if the crash results in a physical injury, or a B misdemeanor if the crash ends in a serious physical injury.