{"id":327076,"date":"2026-08-22T00:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T00:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/327076\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T00:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T00:08:07","slug":"news-12-bronx-three-bicyclists-killed-in-3-days-as-hit-and-run-drivers-remain-at-large","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/327076\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Three Bicyclists Killed In 3 Days As Hit And Run Drivers Remain At Large"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A bicyclist was struck and killed in a Flatlands hit-and-run, according to police.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Mamadou Diallo, 40, of Canarsie, was hit by a dark-colored BMW sedan at East 54th Street and Avenue I just before midnight Thursday. The NYPD says he was thrown off his bike and into a parked, unoccupied car.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Paramedics rushed Diallo to Brookdale Hospital, where he died. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Thursday evening&#8217;s tragedy marked the third deadly hit-and-run in Brooklyn and the Bronx &#8211; over a three-day period.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Early Tuesday morning, <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/police-identify-woman-killed-in-cypress-hill-hit-and-run\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">29-year-old Paulina Tec Choc<\/a> was riding a two-wheeled vehicle in Cypress Hills when a white pickup truck hit her from behind and kept driving, the NYPD says.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Later that same day, <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/one-killed-another-injured-in-chaotic-hunts-point-crash\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">51-year-old Angelo Camara <\/a>was riding a bicycle in Hunts Point when investigators say a BMW flew through a red light and hit him. The driver got out of the car and took off running.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">All three drivers remain on the run as of Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Transportation Alternatives hopes to shed light on the recent rise in cyclist fatalities and prevent future tragedies. The organization plans to hold what they call a &#8220;die-in&#8221; at City Hall Park on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Ben Furnas, executive director of Transportation Alternatives, issued the following statement on Friday afternoon:<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;Three hard-working New Yorkers are dead, and three families are heartbroken with grief. It doesn&#8217;t have to be this way. These three New Yorkers lost their lives because they rode a bike in a city that, despite years of steady progress, still does not ensure safe rides for them. Three preventable deaths in as many days is a stain on our city. We are asking Mayor Mamdani for a plan to stop the carnage and protect all New Yorkers from preventable crashes.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bicyclist was struck and killed in a Flatlands hit-and-run, according to police. Mamadou Diallo, 40, of Canarsie,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-327076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327076","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=327076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}