{"id":100221,"date":"2026-01-14T17:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T17:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/100221\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T17:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T17:34:11","slug":"cyclist-badly-injured-by-truck-driver-at-busy-midtown-corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/100221\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclist Badly Injured By Truck Driver at Busy Midtown Corner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman on a bike was knocked down by a truck driver \u2014 and may have lost her leg \u2014 in a terrifying crash at a frenetic Midtown intersection.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, the 53-year-old trucker was piloting his Rhode Island-plated tractor-trailer southbound on Second Avenue at around 6:15 a.m. on Wednesday when he struck the 46-year-old cyclist as he turned right onto E. 57th Street. It is unclear if the cyclist was also turning onto E. 57th Street or if she was already on the crosstown roadway.<\/p>\n<p>Police initially said the woman was taken to NY-Presbyterian Hospital in critical condition with trauma to her leg, but later said she was in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>But a witness to the crash said the woman&#8217;s leg had been severed &#8220;off&#8221; from her body. That description could not immediately be confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Streetsblog captured several photos of the crash&#8217;s bloody aftermath:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-582409\" alt=\"Blood and human matter stain a crosswalk on 2nd Ave and East 57th Street\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2nd-ave-crash-1-14-26_2.jpg\"   loading=\"lazy\"\/>The truck driver severely injured a cyclist, whose blood and other remains stained the crosswalk at 2nd Avenue and East 57th StreetHenry Beebe-Center<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-582408\" alt=\"NYPD officers stand near a mangled bicycle that belonged to the victim\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2nd-ave-crash-1-14-26.jpg\"   loading=\"lazy\"\/>The collision mangled the victim\u2019s bicycle, bending its front wheel in two places.Henry Beebe-Center<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-582402\" alt=\"Photo of truck that injured cyclist is parked next to mangled bicycle of victim\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/crash-on-E-57th-1.jpg\"   loading=\"lazy\"\/>The truck had a long history of driving infractions.Henry Beebe-Center<\/p>\n<p>The truck involved in the crash <a href=\"https:\/\/howsmydrivingny.nyc\/d02wqgrn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">has been nabbed<\/a> by city speed cameras three times and caught running a red light once since July 2023. It is unclear if the driver in Wednesday&#8217;s crash has always been the driver of the truck.<\/p>\n<p>The intersection of E. 57th Street and Second Avenue is one of the busiest in the city, yet there were just eight reported crashes there last year, injuring four pedestrians and two motorists, <a href=\"https:\/\/howsmydrivingny.nyc\/d02wqgrn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">according to city data<\/a>. In the <a href=\"https:\/\/crashmapper.org\/#\/?cfat=false&amp;cinj=false&amp;endDate=2025-12&amp;geo=custom&amp;identifier=&amp;lat=40.7586394286808&amp;lng=-73.96501958370209&amp;lngLats=%255B%255B-73.9658510684967%252C40.759935630182895%255D%252C%255B-73.96634459495544%252C40.75931800754126%255D%252C%255B-73.96488547325134%252C40.758765392944944%255D%252C%255B-73.96434903144836%252C40.759415527287224%255D%252C%255B-73.9658510684967%252C40.759935630182895%255D%255D&amp;mfat=false&amp;minj=false&amp;noInjFat=false&amp;pfat=false&amp;pinj=false&amp;startDate=2021-01&amp;vbicycle=true&amp;vbusvan=true&amp;vcar=true&amp;vmotorcycle=true&amp;vother=true&amp;vscooter=true&amp;vsuv=true&amp;vtruck=true&amp;zoom=17\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">last five years<\/a>, there have been 69 reported crashes, injuring 42 people, including nine cyclists and 11 pedestrians.<\/p>\n<p>This is a breaking story. Check back later for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman on a bike was knocked down by a truck driver \u2014 and may have lost her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-100221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}