Fatal irony: Hispanic dies hit by truck after surviving a stabbing in New York

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Carlos Martínez, a 53-year-old man, died while riding his bicycle and was hit by a truck in the Bronx, months after surviving a stabbing by a neighbor in Harlem.

His bereaved family reported that shortly before 1 pm on Thursday, Martinez was pedaling down Bruckner Blvd. near E. 136th St. in the Mott Haven neighborhood when he apparently fell off his bike, just as a tow truck carrying a large broken-down truck passed by. He died at Lincoln Hospital a short time later, the NYPD said.

“We were supposed to grow old together. That’s not fair. He wasn’t sick, he was a healthy man.”

Sandra Suro, widow of Carlos Martínez

Martínez he worked in Hunts Point, where he biked from his home in Harlem. On December 3, he had been stabbed during a fight with a neighbor in his residential building on East 115th St. The New York police confirmed that his neighbor Frank Chiclana was arrested for assault and criminal possession of a weapon and a protection order was issued. . The case is still pending.

“He survived a lot. That man was strong.” his widow Sandra Suro told the Daily News while bursting into tears. “He survived and for this to happen… I never thought in my wildest dreams that I would be planning a funeral for my husband. We were supposed to grow old together. That’s not fair. He wasn’t sick, he was a healthy man.”

Martinez appears to have fallen to his left while riding his bike on a large steel plate in the street, which is under construction for Con Edison work. The rider fell under the front wheels of a black truck that was being towed and his bicycle also ended up under the truck and was mangled.

Suro said that her husband he was an experienced cyclist and that Con Edison’s construction work on Bruckner Blvd. must have played a role in his death.

That same day, earlier, A 20-month-old baby was killed by a driver when he was walking hand in hand with his mother on a quiet street in Staten Island.

In addition to armed violence, traffic accidents are another great challenge for the new mayor Eric Adams, after a dismal legacy from his predecessor, Bill De Blasio. New York City has experienced a 35% increase in traffic accidents so far this year, stated NYPD in mid-April. At the end of that month there was a tragic streak in NYC at an average of one person killed by a run over every day.