Cyclist Injured On Fourth Ave In Sunset Park Hit-And-Run: Report

SUNSET PARK, BROOKLYN — Just a week after the city promised to speed up putting in a bike lane on the corridor, a cyclist was injured on Fourth Avenue in Sunset Park when a car hit him and drove away, BKLYNER reports.

The cyclist was hit around 11:30 a.m. Saturday as he was riding north on Fourth Avenue near 49th Street, which is a part of the corridor that is under construction. The car, which 72nd Precinct officers on scene told BKLYNER drove away, knocked the man to the ground. He was sent to NYU Langone Brooklyn with non-life threatening injuries.

The crash comes a little over a week after the city's Department of Transportation promised it would finish putting in a long-awaited Fourth Avenue bike lane from 15th Street to 57th Street by the end of the year.

The lane, which will eventually extend from 64th Street all the way up to Atlantic Avenue, was originally supposed to be finished last year. Advocates and elected officials condemned its delay, especially after two cyclists died this year riding on the more-dangerous Third Avenue.

Those cyclists, Hugo Garcia and Em Samolewicz, are among the 19 that have lost their lives so far this year on city streets.

Police did not give BKLYNER more information about Saturday's crash because the Deputy Commissioner for Public Information office does not receive and release information about minor crashes when the Collision Investigation Squad was not called.

"We get hundreds of requests and I don’t have time for that," a detective told BKLYNER when they called the office before hanging up.

The Collision Investigation Squad investigates collisions that result in life threatening or fatal injuries, or, a provision added in 2017, when a pedestrian is knocked unconscious, DCPI told Patch.