At least 21 cyclists have died throughout 2023 in New York City after being hit by motorists, the last of them last morning on a Bronx street, an accident in which the attacker fled.
According to the police, the dead man is a 29-year-old man who was in the street at 5:30 in the morning when he was hit at the intersection of two streets by a dark SUV that fled the scene and is now actively wanted by the “collision investigation unit” of the police.
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The NGO Transportation Alternatives, which tries to document the excesses of motorized traffic, points out that This year marks a sad record for cyclist deathsand specifies that 93% of the outrages Fatalities are caused by large SUV-type vehicles, which are increasingly abundant on the streets of New York.
New York City has 1,500 kilometers of bike lanes – more than any in the United States – but most do not have physical lane separation for automobiles nor with protection of any kind, and only the green color on the ground helps to identify them.
2023-08-10 19:42:00
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