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Police had not yet released the victim’s name as of Thursday afternoon, but local news site BoroPark24 identified him as Eric Salitsky, a resident of the neighborhood and a “talented architect and designer who loved biking and the outdoors.” You’re obligated to see what’s there to be seen,” personal injury attorney Daniel Flanzig previously told Streetsblog. “Saying, ‘I didn’t feel it’ is not an excuse, it’s an admission.

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Yet like many times before, police are already absolving the driver, claiming that he or she did not know the truck had hit the victim before fleeing, according to CBS News - repeating a common claim told by drivers that experts have said should actually be treated more like an admission of guilt, rather than an excuse, per civil law.

Our leaders must put people first, and scale proven solutions without delay.” “Our streets are in a crisis that will only be stemmed by immediate government action. No New Yorkers should have to fear crossing the street, walking to school, or biking to work. A person walking or biking stands no chance against a 4,000-pound sports car or a 12,000-pound truck,” said Transportation Alternatives Executive Director Danny Harris.

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Police had few details about the latest fatal crash - at least the 75th so far this year - but said that the unidentified driver was heading south on Ninth Avenue, when he or she “hit the cyclist from the back,” near 39th Street - a deadly stretch of roadway outside an MTA facility, where employees routinely and illegally park their cars with work vests on their dash.Īdvocates are pleading with city and state officials to make streets safer. The driver of a private waste truck hit and killed a cyclist in Borough Park on Thursday morning, and then fled the scene, amid a dizzying spike in fatal crashes this year, and this week, that includes the death of an NYU student on E.

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