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Truck strikes biker attempting to turn onto Warren Street in Park Slope
A Citi Bike with its front fork ripped off was discarded in Park Slope after a box truck struck its rider. Photo by Colin Mixson
BY COLIN MIXSON
A box truck collided with a
cyclist in Park Slope Tuesday
morning, leaving the
biker unconscious.
Surveillance footage
shows the Citi Bike rider
heading north along Fifth
Avenue at shortly after 7:40
a.m., when a southbound delivery
vehicle strikes him as
he attempts to turn left onto
Warren Street.
The biker was directly
behind another northbound
truck when he attempted the
ill-fated turn. That vehicle
appears to have obscured the
biker from the truck — and
vice versa, footage shows.
Following the collision, a
woman can be seen attempting
to communicate with the
cyclist, who is either unconscious,
or incapable of rising
to his feet, surveillance
footage provided courtesy of
Fifth Avenue eatery Miriam
and Milan Optique shows.
Paramedics transported
the unconscious man to Methodist
Hospital in Park Slope,
according to a spokesman for
the Fire Department, who
could not provide any additional
information regarding
the cyclist’s condition.
A spokesman for the Police
Department said medics
transported the cyclist
with only minor injuries,
and that the accident is being
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Precinct.
Following the collision,
a Citi Bike could be seen
propped against a Fifth Avenue
street light, its front
fork ripped clean off the
bike.
Vehicular collisions
have claimed the lives of 15
New York City cyclists this
year — including 11 deaths
in Brooklyn — as compared
to only 10 deaths citywide in
2018.
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