A bicycle owner was fatally struck by an out-of-control SUV that barreled right into a parked car simply seconds in a while a Brooklyn road Sunday morning, in accordance with police.
The driving force of the black Volkswagen SUV was heading northbound on Union Avenue close to Lynch Avenue in Williamsburg when he collided with a 46-year-old man driving a motorbike in the identical route at round 11:30 a.m., authorities stated.
After the driving force, a 40-year-old man, hit the bicycle owner, he then plowed into an unoccupied white Honda Odyssey that was parked on the facet of the street, police stated.
The bicycle owner was rushed to Kings County Hospital the place he succumbed to his accidents. The operator of the Volkswagen was additionally taken to the identical hospital in steady situation.
Video obtained by the Williamsburg Information exhibits a black SUV zooming into the white SUV proper earlier than the screech of brakes could be heard. The black car pushed the white one not less than a pair hundred toes earlier than each got here to a cease, the footage from the outlet exhibits.
Thus far, no arrests have been made because the probe is ongoing by the NYPD’s freeway collision investigation division, cops stated.
Metropolis Councilman Lincoln Restler known as the newest bicycle owner fatality “tragic” as he known as for safer streets within the Large Apple.
“We’ll maintain pushing for safer streets on each block,” Restler, a Democrat, stated in a tweet.
“Extra cyclists died in NYC final yr than 25 yrs. These deaths are preventable w/ community of protected lanes.”
