A 48-year-old cyclist was killed this morning after he collided with a pickup truck in Queens, police said on Tuesday.
The bicycle rider was traveling west on Sanford Ave. in Flushing when a 23-year-old man driving a Ford F 150 truck southbound on 160th St. tried to make a right turn onto Sanford Ave., and the vehicles crashed into each other, cops said.
Medics rushed the 48-year-old victim to New York-Presbyterian Hospital where doctors pronounced him dead.
The driver stayed at the scene of the crash.
A firefighter puts down salt where blood was washed away after a man on a bicycle was fatally hit by a truck on the corner of Sanford Ave. and 160th St. in Queens on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026. (Shawn Inglima/ New York Daily News)
So far there have been no arrests. The NYPD’s Collision Investigation Squad is investigating.
The victim’s identity is being withheld until his family has been notified.