Edgar José Torres Hernández died in a hospital in Brooklyn (NYC) where he was confined for several days after the bicycle he was riding was hit by an SUV.
The accident happened around 9:15 p.m. Friday near Nostrand Ave. and Avenue R in Sheepshead Bay, when the bicyclist collided with the driver of a 2020 Nissan Pathfinder.
Paramedics took him to NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn, where he was in critical condition due to a massive head injury and was placed on a ventilator.
Since the 35-year-old patient did not carry documents, he spent several days without being identified. The photo of him in the hospital bed was distributed by the NYPD, until a family member recognized him on Sunday.
Torres Hernández suffered brain damage from a “very strong blow to the head.” His colleague Carla López said all of his close relatives live in Mexico and his family hopes to raise funds to repatriate his body.
The unidentified 50-year-old man driving the pickup remained at the scene of the accident and no criminal charges were immediately filed, it said. Daily News.
In February, a Mexican employee of a car wash in the Bronx (NYC) was killed outside his workplace.
In December another Mexican was killed when he was riding an electric bicycle by a driver who fled in Chelsea (Manhattan), the NYPD reported.
In July of last year, a young delivery man of Mexican origin born in the US died working when his bicycle was run over by a driver with a baby on board in a stolen car in The Bronx (NYC).