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BROOKLYN WEEKLY, OCTOBER 20, 2019
The 2017 Subaru was towed to the 84th Precinct’s Gold Street station house with heavy damage.
Photo by Todd Maisel CRUSH HOUR
Cyclist injured in
Downtown crash
BY TODD MAISEL
A motorist smashed into a cyclist
near the Manhattan Bridge entrance
ramp in Downtown Brooklyn during the
morning rush Friday, sending him to a
Park Slope medical center with serious
injuries.
The cyclist was crossing the Flatbush
Avenue Extension along Concord Street
astride his Raleigh 10-speed at 9:15
am, when the operator of a Manhattan
Bridge-bound 2017 Subaru struck him
broadside, according to officers from
the 84th Precinct.
The impact sent the bike rider over the
hood, and left a spiderweb crack smeared
across the driver’s front windshield.
Firefighters rushed to provide aid
to the wounded cyclist, who a witness
claimed was “in and out of consciousness,”
before transporting him to Methodist
Hospital in Park Slope.
His condition at press time was not
immediately known.
The 27-year-old driver remained at
the scene and claimed he was proceeding
through a “steady green light” when the
cyclist wearing headphones and no helmet
attempted to ford Concord Street.
“We were all speeding up to go onto
the bridge, when the biker was crossing
in the middle of the intersection,” said
the driver, a Bay Ridge resident, who declined
to provide his name. “I didn’t see
him at first, because he crossed in front
of a truck on my right, somehow didn’t
get hit by the truck, and by the time I
saw him, it was too late.”
The car suffered heavy damage to the
windshield, hood, bumper and side mirror,
and had to be towed away, according
to the driver, who said he had just
had the vehicle detailed. The bicycle suffered
a bent rim and police towed it to
the 84th Precinct’s Gold Street station
house.
Traffic on Flatbush Avenue was
backed up to as far as the Atlantic Terminal
Mall as a result of the crash, and
the lower level of Manhattan Bridge on
the Manhattan-bound side was closed
for about an hour and a half.
Twenty-four people have been killed
riding bicycles this year, including 17
in Brooklyn, after an unlicensed driver
struck and killed 10-year-old Dalerjon
Shahobiddinov on Foster Avenue in
Kensington on Oct. 5.
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