Mepham High School freshman Jayden Flores, 14, struck and killed while riding e-bike in North Bellmore, authorities say

A 14-year-old freshman at Mepham High School was struck and killed Thursday morning while riding an e-bike in North Bellmore, according to authorities.

In a community-wide email, the Bellmore-Merrick school district identified the student as Jayden Flores.

"This is an unimaginable loss, and we will continue to surround his family and friends with love and support in the days ahead," said the email, signed by Superintendent Michael Harrington.

The boy’s parents were in anguish Thursday afternoon at the intersection where their son was hit.

"It’s really hard right now," said his father, Jonathan Flores.

The crash happened about 7:05 a.m. on Alice Avenue as the teen rode westbound crossing Bellmore Avenue and a 45-year-old driver in a 2025 Chevrolet SUV struck him while southbound on Bellmore, the Nassau County Police Department wrote in a news release. The driver's name was not immediately released.

"The E-Bike operator suffered severe body trauma," the release said.

The four-lane Bellmore Avenue has a speed limit of 40 mph on that stretch of road.

A woman who owns a home at the intersection said the impact was so loud she thought it was two cars colliding. The woman, a 39-year-old former social worker whom Newsday is not naming at her request, said she called 911 and rushed out of her house to find the boy on her front lawn and a dark red vehicle jutting into her driveway, its windshield shattered and front end "completely blown in."

She said the boy was not breathing but he still had a pulse, so she did CPR chest compressions until the police arrived.

"It was horrible," the woman said, adding she spoke with the boy’s parents when they came to the intersection.

"She knew he wasn't alone when he passed," the woman said of the boy's mother. "I was with him. My neighbors across the street were with me, and we did everything we could.

"As a mother, you know, I gave my best effort to try to do something, but unfortunately, it wasn't enough."

The woman said she has two children, age 3 and 5, and she works as a co-teacher at a preschool.

"As a mother, no matter what, I know that if it was my son, if there was any chance," she said, "I would want somebody to do everything that they knew they could do to try to revive him."

The boy was brought by ambulance to a hospital where a physician pronounced him dead, the Nassau police news release said.

No further details of the crash or the police investigation, which the release said is unfinished, were disclosed.

The district email said that social workers, school counselors and psychologists were available for those who need them.

Statewide, 48 bicyclists were killed last year in crashes involving motor vehicles, including six on Long Island: — two in Nassau and four in Suffolk, according to the University at Albany-based Institute for Traffic Safety Management & Research.

Newsday has reported that Long Island's roads are among the deadliest in New York State to bike and walk on, but drivers involved in crashes that kill bicyclists and pedestrians rarely face criminal charges.