FDNY Firetruck Strikes and Kills Bike owner in N.Y.C.

A person is useless after he was struck by a hearth truck in New York Metropolis.

The New York Police Division confirmed to PEOPLE that police have been referred to as to a scene in Queens at round 4:00 p.m. native time on Saturday, April 19, after they obtained studies of a collision involving a bicyclist and a hearth truck.

Police stated {that a} man — whose id has not been made public — was driving his bike on Juniper Blvd. when a New York Metropolis Hearth Division (FDNY) truck turned off of one other close by road alongside Juniper Valley Park and collided with him.

“A preliminary investigation decided {that a} FDNY fireplace truck was touring northbound on eightieth St. and was making a flip onto Juniper Blvd. when the automobile collided with an unidentified grownup male bicyclist,” police stated.

The person was pronounced useless on the scene, the NYPD added.

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PIX 11 Information reported that an FDNY spokesperson stated firefighters have been responding to a church fireplace on the time of the accident.

“There have been two firefighters standing on the highway. Certainly one of them appeared involved, like shaken, like shocked,” eyewitness Miguel Vega informed The New York Submit.

“I simply really feel so dangerous for everybody. For the individuals within the fireplace truck, the households concerned, everybody,” he added.

No arrests have been made, and the NYPD Freeway District Collision Investigation Squad continues to be investigating the incident.