MyBikeLane

A biker was killed by a box truck about 1/2 mile northwest over on Sixth Avenue at the roughly the same time I snapped this photo on Broadway of yet another selfish truck driver parked in a bike lane. Of course, with armored trucks, UPS, and all the other cars and trucks greedily hogging the bike lanes, it's a wonder there aren't more casualties. Aren't the 2,300+ posts of violations on this website enough to convince the City of New York to better enforce its regulations? Hello, ticket blitz? This week also marks the one-year-anniversary of the killing of 22-year-old Eric Ng by a drunk driver as he rode his bicycle down the Hudson River bike lane. Rest in peace, gentlemen.

Bicyclist killed after falling in front of truck
BY MELISSA GRACE and TINA MOORE
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Wednesday, December 5th 2007, 2:15 PM
A 63-year-old man bicycling in midtown Manhattan Wednesday morning hit a car door and flipped into the street before he was run over and killed by a box truck, police said.
The man, whose identity wasn’t immediately released, was not wearing a helmet, a police source said.
A pool of blood remained in the left-hand lane of 6th Ave. between W. 36 and W. 37th after the accident around 9 a.m.
"He was alive for a few minutes. In fact, he was trying to get up," a female security guard in a nearby office building said.
A police officer at the scene said he talked to the bicyclist right after he was struck.
"At first, he was responsive," the cop said, explaining that the man nodded his head and was responding to basic questions, even providing his name. "He was shaking his head yes. He was bleeding from the head."
A concierge in a nearby building said rescuers tried to resuscitate the man with CPR.
"He was blue, they where trying to resuscitate him all the way into the ambulance," he said.
The Ace Hardware truck that hit the man stayed at the scene. There were no charges, cops said.
The man was pronounced dead at Bellevue Hospital.