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COURIER L 14 IFE, OCTOBER 22-28, 2021
Cyclist killed by
SUV driver in
Sheepshead Bay
The scene where a driver of an Audi SUV struck and killed a
cyclist on Oct. 18. Photo by Lloyd Mitchell
BY BEN BRACHFELD
A driver behind the
wheel of an SUV killed
a cyclist in Sheepshead
Bay on Oct. 18, marking
the latest death in a particularly
deadly year for
traffi c fatalities.
Cops responded to a
report of a crash at Nostrand
Avenue and Shore
Parkway in Sheepshead
Bay at around 5:50 pm,
where they found 55-
year-old Bensonhurst
resident Fidel Trinidad
lying in the roadway
with severe bodily
trauma.
Police say Trinidad
had been riding a bike
southbound on Nostrand
Avenue when he was
struck by a driver in a
green Audi SUV, which
was traveling northbound
on the roadway.
The driver remained on
the scene, and the NYPD
is investigating the
crash.
Paramedics rushed
Trinidad to Coney Island
Hospital, where doctors
pronounced him dead on
Monday night.
A search of the driver’s
license plate on How’s
My Driving NY shows
the SUV has racked up 14
school speed camera violations
since May, along
with two red light camera
violations.
While this is the fi rst
fatal incident at that intersection
in the past
fi ve years, three other
people, all pedestrians,
have been killed in traffi
c collisions within a
two-block radius since
2016, per NYC Crash
Mapper. Those deceased
include Marie Beavers,
64, at Nostrand and Emmons
avenues in 2015;
Iosif Morgenshteyn, 65,
at East 28th St and Shore
Parkway in 2018; and
Misa Gorlitskaya, 80, at
Haring St and Voorhies
Ave in 2019.
Vision Zero data
showed that drivers
have killed 13 cyclists in
2021, as of Sept. 30. Several
more cyclists were
killed in October, including
Jose Ramos, 56, who
was killed by a hit-andrun
driver on Oct. 15 on
Atlantic Avenue and Essex
Street in East New
York.
Safe streets advocates
Transportation Alternatives
released a report
earlier this month identifying
this summer as
the deadliest in terms
of traffi c violence since
Mayor Bill de Blasio took
offi ce in 2014. 217 people
have died in traffi c collisions
on city streets so
far this year, per NYPD
data, a 17 percent increase
over this point in
2020.
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