An East Oakland neighborhood that has long battled speeding and sideshows experienced a tragedy this past Friday when a man named Hector Jose Ortega, 63, collided with a speeding SUV at the intersection of Miller Avenue and East 16th Street, killing him.

According to the Oakland Police Department, corroborated by a bystander video viewed by The Oaklandside, Ortega was riding fast on an electric bicycle southbound, downhill, on Miller Avenue when he collided with a driver inside a Ford SUV traveling eastbound on East 16th Street. The video shows Ortega moving into the middle lane on Miller, either to make a left turn or to avoid the SUV.

Ortega biked through the stop sign at the corner; the driver, who has not yet been identified, did not have a stop.

Ortega was sent into the air, landin

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