Very sad news:
An 18-year-old cyclist from Park Slope was killed on Flatbush Avenue and Duryea Place in Ditmas Park on Wednesday morning when his bike was struck by a dollar van.
The NYPD said that the cyclist was a white male in his twenties. But I’ve heard from a source who knows the boy that he was an 18-year-old who attended PS 321 and Millenium High School and was currently a college freshman at CUNY.
He was traveling east on Duryea and the motorist was traveling north on Flatbush. The driver, a 28-year-old male, was charged with negligent homicide and other charges for driving without a license, speeding and going through a red light.
This is a terrible story.
Yes, it’s so sad. It IS a terrible story.
I believe he actually in Windsor Terrace on McDonald Avenue according to the NY Times story.
I had the misfortune of driving past the scene just after it happened. RIP.
This is really tragic and sad. However, the driver was not a dollar van:
http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/33/16/fl_bikedeath_2010_04_23_bk.html
It was Jake McDonaugh, who was in the 321 Graduating Class of 2002 (My daughter’s classmate in Neil Zwillinger’s class). There is an article in today
s Times (http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/14/cyclist-fatally-struck-in-brooklyn/)