""We only have one car," the victim's tearful wife, a public school teacher, said. "He didn't want a second car. He loved that scooter. He went to work on it. The only thing he didn't use it for was to transport the kids." "He had it for a while," she added. "He loved it. I was like, 'We need a second car. We have two kids now.' And he's like, 'We don't need it.'""
""I'm just trying to hold it together for my daughters," she said as loved ones gathered in Ilya's mother's home, near where Ilya lived with his family, to comfort them. "It's been nice having people around, but I'm worried for when they leave. It doesn't really feel real. It fe"
Ilya Perloff, 41, was a physical therapist at a nursing home and rehabilitation facility who commuted on an electric standup scooter. He was riding west on Fillmore Ave. when he collided with a 2015 Toyota Sienna minivan traveling north on E. 38th St. at about 11:50 a.m. The impact propelled him into a parked minivan. Emergency responders took him to Mount Sinai Brooklyn, where he died. The minivan driver, a 70-year-old woman, stayed at the scene and was not hurt; no immediate charges were filed. Perloff lived with his wife and two daughters, ages 10 and 2, and the family had only one car; he preferred the scooter for his commute.
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