A five-vehicle pile-up earlier this month left one person dead and caused an hours-long shutdown of Walt Disney World’s Epcot Center Drive.
According to local media outlet Fox 35, law enforcement with the Florida Highway Patrol confirmed that one e-bike driver was killed in the accident, which occurred on Oct. 6 at approximately 6:40 a.m. local time on Epcot Center Drive at Interstate 4 in Orlando.
Orlando Sentinel reported that the pile-up occurred when an e-bike traveled into the direct path of another vehicle, which struck the bicyclist and set off a “chain reaction” among the other cars involved.
The e-bike driver was taken to Advent Health Celebration Hospital but was pronounced dead not long after. Another driver involved in the accident was also taken to the hospital with minor i