Bicyclist, 25, fatally struck by truck near Prospect Park: cops
A 25-year-old bicyclist was fatally struck by a truck when she fell off her ride near Brooklyn’s Prospect Park Wednesday morning, cops said.
The woman was pedaling east on Parkside Avenue near Parade Place in Prospect Lefferts Gardens just outside the greenspace around 7 a.m. when she somehow fell off her bike and landed in the street, police said.
Then the driver of the tractor, heading in the same direction, struck the woman on the ground, cops said.
She was discovered with trauma to her body and was pronounced dead at the scene.
The tractor-trailer driver stayed at the scene and no arrests have been made, police said.
It was unclear what caused the woman to initially fall off the bike.
Her name was not immediately released.