School Bus Driver Fatally Hit Cyclist in Borough Park
A school bus driver making a turn near Fort Hamilton Parkway and 41st Street in Brooklyn hit and killed a male bicyclist on Sept. 21, 2023, as the bus was carrying young yeshiva students, police told the Daily News.
What We Know
A male bicyclist was killed on Sept. 21, 2023, near Fort Hamilton Parkway and 41st Street in Brooklyn. The city crash record lists a bus driver making a right turn and a bicyclist traveling straight ahead, both southbound. The Daily News, citing police and witnesses, reported that the driver was operating a yellow yeshiva school bus carrying young girls and that the cyclist died at the scene. Witnesses described people giving the cyclist chest compressions, and the paper reported that the driver waited for police and did not immediately face charges.
A turn near 41st Street ended in a cyclist's death
The city crash record says the bus driver was making a right turn and the bicyclist was going straight ahead near Fort Hamilton Parkway and 41st Street at about 3:13 p.m. The record lists one person killed: a male bicyclist.
The Daily News reported that police said the driver was operating a yellow school bus from a local yeshiva when the driver hit the cyclist. The article’s text gives conflicting descriptions of the exact turn, but places the crash in Borough Park at the same intersection area.
Fort Hamilton Parkway has seen repeated harm
The crash was recorded at Fort Hamilton Parkway and 41st Street in Brooklyn.
CrashCountNYC’s location context for Fort Hamilton Parkway in Brooklyn counted 766 crashes, 497 injuries, 29 serious injuries and 5 deaths from Jan. 1, 2022, through June 1, 2026.
Records and press accounts disagree on some details
The city crash record lists the bicyclist as a 44-year-old man. The Daily News article also describes him as 44 in its police account, though an earlier sentence in the same article describes him as 43.
The city crash record lists 19 occupants for the bus. The Daily News reported that the bus was carrying 20 girls under age 5 from a local yeshiva.
Witnesses described attempted aid and a shaken driver
A witness told the Daily News that the bicycle was behind the bus and that people were giving the cyclist chest compressions, but he was not responding. The paper reported that the cyclist died at the scene.
Another witness told the Daily News that the driver was crying and said he had not seen anyone before feeling that he had hit something. The article reported that the driver waited for police and did not immediately face charges.