News 12 has obtained exclusive video showing the moment an e-bike rider was struck along a busy stretch of 8th Avenue in Sunset Park.<\/p>\n
The crash happened just before 9 p.m. near 44th Street on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The video appears to show the rider heading down 8th Avenue as a double-parked van begins pulling out into the street. Seconds later, the rider is hit and falls to the ground.<\/p>\n
People nearby can then be seen rushing over to help. The driver appears to stay on the scene.<\/p>\n
Harry Borelli says it’s scary but not surprising when asked about the incident.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously, sadness because it\u2019s not the first time,” said Borelli.<\/p>\n
It happened blocks away from where a 75-year-old woman was hit and killed by a car in October.<\/p>\n
Sherry Costello says it’s a chaotic traffic area.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith so many people and so many cars, it\u2019s congested,” said Costello.<\/p>\n
The FDNY says the rider was taken to Maimonides Medical Center with serious injuries. The rider\u2019s age and condition have not been released.<\/p>\n
The section of 8th Avenue where the cyclist was hit does not appear to have bike lanes.<\/p>\n
Ben Flores says it can pose challenges when navigating the roadway.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel pretty OK, but there\u2019s like an 8-ton truck behind me and not everyone feels as safe or comfortable, so I can totally see how people can be hurt,” said Flores.<\/p>\n
Police also have not said if any charges could be filed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"News 12 has obtained exclusive video showing the moment an e-bike rider was struck along a busy stretch…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-224253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224253","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=224253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}