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COURIER L 36 IFE, OCT. 18-24, 2019
Downtown Crash
Cyclist sent to Methodist
Hospital with serious injuries
The 2017 Subaru was towed to the 84th Precinct’s Gold Street station house with heavy
damage. Photo by Todd Maisel
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 Manhattanbound
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.
Police remove a bicycle from the on-ramp
to the Manhattan Bridge after paramedics
rushed the rider to Methodist Hospital in
Park Slope. Photo by Todd Maisel
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Coffee. (if steady rain – Oct 27th)
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