A Brooklyn man is speaking out after a wrong-way driver ran over his bicycle in Park Slope – forcing him to dive out of the way. <\/p>\n
Surveillance video given to News 12 appeared to show a Honda HRV crossing the double yellow traffic lines into the opposite lane. The rider jumps off the bike right before the car hits it. <\/p>\n
The incident happened around 1:15 p.m. on Saturday at the corner of 5th Avenue and 10th Street. <\/p>\n
The cyclist, Tom Flaschen, said he called 911, but officers claimed they could not file a report because they \u201cdid not witness the accident.\u201d <\/p>\n
Flaschen told News 12 on Tuesday that the driver was over the age of 70 and stayed on scene, but the victim hoped that this could be used to bring stronger safety measures. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis isn\u2019t about the actions of one individual,\u201d said Flaschen. \u201cI do not harbor any ill will towards this man. I just really want to see it as a catalyst for change and improving the streets and making it safer for everyone, not just those fit enough to dive out of the way at the last moment.\u201d <\/p>\n
Statement from Michael Racioppo, district manager of Brooklyn Community Board 6: \u201cThis is troubling on many levels. First, as alleged, the NYPD says they can\u2019t do anything about it because they ‘didn’t witness it,\u2019 and they wouldn\u2019t be allowed to do anything about 99.9% of things. If someone had reported a person running past them, pointing a gun at them, but the NYPD didn\u2019t witness it, would they give the same response? I would hope not, but either way, this entire incident reinforces why we need to make better policy choices, such as more protected bike lanes, so drivers can\u2019t drive in the wrong direction so easily, camera enforcement, and also reinforces why we\u2019ve supported traffic enforcement to reside with DOT as it did through the mid-1990s.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Brooklyn man is speaking out after a wrong-way driver ran over his bicycle in Park Slope –…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,29892,33125,71921,9,24,63,8005,75741,33400],"class_list":{"0":"post-188909","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-cycling","12":"tag-cyclist","13":"tag-cyclist-safety","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-park-slope","18":"tag-wrong-way","19":"tag-wrong-way-crash"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188909","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=188909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}