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MORE CYCLISTS KILLED
Activists blame city after three bikers fatally struck in four-day span
BY AIDAN GRAHAM
A 16-year-old bicyclist is dead
after a box truck ran him over
in Borough Park on May 15, according
to authorities.
The teen’s death marks the
10th bicyclist fatality in the
city this year, and the eighth
in Kings County, according to
city data .
The teenager was cycling
along 17th Avenue when he
swerved to avoid an opening
car door, causing him to fall to
the ground near the intersection
of 53rd Street. The trailing
box truck then ran over
the teen as he was laying in
the street at approximately
5:38 p.m., cops said.
First responders took the
victim to Maimonides Hospital,
where doctors pronounced
him dead.
Another cyclist, pedaling
through Crown Heights, was
hit by a car and taken to Kings
County Hospital on May 11
and pronounced dead on May
14, according to police.
Three days before last
Wednesday’s tragedy, the
driver of an SUV fatally struck
29-year-old biker Robert Sommer
in Marine Park.
After Sommer’s death on
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Greener pastures
Parks First Deputy Commissioner Liam Kavanagh, Assemblymember Jaime Williams, Jamaica Bay-Rockaway Parks Conservancy Executive Director
Alex Zablocki, NYC Program Director at The Nature Conservancy Emily Nobel Maxwell, and Natural Area’s Conservancy Executive Director
Sarah Charlop-Powers cut the ribbon on a new two-mile hiking trail with more than 7,000 new trees in Marine Park. For more, see page 4.
Justin Bowers
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