A 7-year-old boy was killed and another child hurt last night when a van slammed into the bike they were riding at a Bronx intersection, police said.
Arnaldo Martinez, 7, and Miguel Benitez, 10, were riding the bicycle together rode off a sidewalk into moving traffic at West 192 Street and Grand Avenue, cops and witnesses said. Martinez was pronounced dead at Montefiore Hospital, where Benitez was treated for a broken leg.
Late last night, neighborhood residents gathered with family members of the two boys at the site of the accident and said they have long considered the intersection to be dangerous.
“How many other kids have to die before they put a light up? What’s it going to take?” asked Martinez’s distraught mother, Maria Torres.
The driver was not cited.