Elderly woman in critical condition after Citi Bike van crashes into her in the Bronx 3%

By Roni Jacobson67%

4/12/2026, 8:30:54 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 7 faulty reasoning types, including Attempt to Sell a Product or Service, Framing Effect, and Negativity Bias, with Appeal to Emotion as the most egregious example at 11% saturation with 23 hits. Analysis detected 62 faulty-reasoning hits from 209 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 14.8% and a BS Rank of 3% (16,395 of 16,813 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 97.50% of the article peer group.

A 71-year-old woman is in critical condition after a Citi Bike van crashed into her and her husband Sunday as they crossed a Bronx street, police said. 
The woman and her 64-year-old husband were walking across the street around 10:40 a.m. at Broadway and W. 225th St. in Marble Hill when a Mercedes Benz Sprinter van with a Citi Bike decal traveling westbound on 225th St. struck them while trying to turn onto Broadway, cops said. 
Medics rushed both victims to St. 
Barnabas Hospital, where the woman remained in critical condition Sunday afternoon, according to police. 
Her husband is in stable condition, cops said. 
The 41-year-old man driving the van remained at the scene, according to police. 
“This incident is unacceptable. 
Our thoughts are with the affected parties,” said a spokesperson for the ride-share app Lyft. that includes Citi Bike. 
“We're investigating this report and stand ready to assist law enforcement.” 
There have been no arrests as the NYPD investigates the collision. 
Police investigate after a Citi Bike van collided with two pedestrians on Broadway and W. 225th St. in the Bronx on Sunday. 
(Theodore Parisienne / New York Daily News) 
With Theodore Parisienne 
Confirmation Bias
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Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
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Representativeness Heuristic
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Hindsight Bias
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Overconfidence Bias
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Framing Effect
1.9%
Loss Aversion
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Status Quo Bias
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Sunk Cost Effect
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Optimism Bias
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Pessimism Bias
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Negativity Bias
1.9%
Self-Serving Bias
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Fundamental Attribution Error
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Actor-Observer Bias
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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Halo Effect
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Horn Effect
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Recency Bias
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Primacy Effect
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Blind-Spot Bias
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Ad Hominem
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Straw Man
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Appeal to Authority
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False Dilemma
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Slippery Slope
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Circular Reasoning
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Hasty Generalization
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Red Herring
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Bandwagon
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Appeal to Emotion
11%
Begging the Question
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Tu Quoque
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Burden of Proof
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Appeal to Nature
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Composition/Division
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Anecdotal
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No True Scotsman
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Middle Ground
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Personal Incredulity
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Special Pleading
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Genetic Fallacy
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Unattributed Quote
1.9%
Quote-first Misdirection
1.9%
Biased Writer Voice
1.9%
Indoctrination
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
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Politically Right Leaning Bias
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
9.1%

209 words analyzed.

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