![]() ![]() Just this year in the confines of the Midtown South precinct, there have been 630 reported crashes - more than two per day - injuring 67 cyclists, 90 pedestrians and 89 motorists, according to the same database. Since January 2020, there have been 107 reported crashes on just the three blocks of Eighth Avenue between 42nd and 45th streets, injuring 13 cyclists, 18 pedestrians and 19 motorists, according to city data. The area around the Port Authority Bus Terminal is exceptionally dangerous for pedestrians. That’s lower than the number killed last year during the same period, but still high. The pedestrian would be at least the 78th killed this year. ![]() Workers in the area tell us the victim was a homeless man they saw regularly. Eyewitness says several people told driver to stop, driver got out, claimed he did not see the pedestrian. Pedestrian struck & killed by tractor trailer. No further information was immediately available, including whether the truck or the pedestrian had the light, the agency spokeswoman said.Īvoid 8th Av btwn 42nd & 44th Sts. The driver remained at the crash site and was not immediately charged. “An unidentified male pedestrian approximately in his 50s, was crossing Eighth Avenue from the east side of the street to the west side of the street was struck by the box struck,” the Department of Transportation later said in its official preliminary statement after the crash. The victim suffered severe head and body trauma and died at the scene. A police spokeswoman told Streetsblog that, based on preliminary information, the pedestrian “walked in front” of the truck. A pedestrian was struck and killed by a truck driver at a busy Midtown intersection on Thursday morning - and the NYPD said in its preliminary report that the victim had “walked in front” of a moving tractor trailer.Īccording to the NYPD, the man, who remains unidentified but is “in his 40s,” was struck at the intersection of Eighth Avenue and 44th Street by a northbound truck at around 11:30 a.m. ![]()
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