School bus driver fatally hits bicyclist in Borough Park turn
A school bus driver making a right turn at Fort Hamilton Parkway and 41st Street hit and killed a 44-year-old bicyclist on Sept. 21, 2023, as the bus carried young yeshiva students, the Daily News reported.
What We Know
A city crash record places the fatal crash at Fort Hamilton Parkway and 41st Street in Brooklyn at about 3:13 p.m. on Sept. 21, 2023. It records a southbound bus driver making a right turn and a southbound bicyclist going straight ahead. The bicyclist, a 44-year-old man, was killed. The Daily News reported that the driver was operating a yellow yeshiva school bus carrying young girls, that witnesses saw responders giving chest compressions, and that the driver waited for police. The article and the city record agree on the intersection and the right-turn movement, but the article’s text describes the turn in two different ways, and the sources differ on the number of people aboard the bus.
A right turn at Fort Hamilton Parkway and 41st Street
The city crash record says the bus driver was traveling south and making a right turn when the crash occurred at about 3:13 p.m. The bicyclist, a 44-year-old man also recorded as traveling south and going straight ahead, was killed.
The Daily News reported that the driver was operating a yellow school bus for a local yeshiva. Its account says police and witnesses described the driver hitting the bicyclist during the turn.
A fatal crash on a heavily traveled Brooklyn corridor
The crash happened at Fort Hamilton Parkway and 41st Street in Brooklyn, along the Fort Hamilton Parkway corridor.
CrashCountNYC’s location review counts 766 crashes, 497 injuries, 29 serious injuries and 5 deaths on Fort Hamilton Parkway in Brooklyn since 2022.
The bicyclist died as children remained on the bus
The city record identifies the person killed as a 44-year-old male bicyclist. The Daily News reported that police were still working to notify his family Thursday evening.
The Daily News reported that the bus was carrying young girls from a local yeshiva. A witness told the paper that children on the bus were crying after the crash.
Records and reporting differ on the bus occupancy
The city record describes a 2023 INTL-TRUCK/BUS with 19 occupants and a bike with one rider. The Daily News, citing police and witnesses, described a yellow school bus carrying 20 girls under age 5. The sources do not resolve the difference.
The city record says the bus driver was licensed in New York. It records no other injuries.
Witnesses described emergency aid and a distraught driver
A witness told the Daily News that the bicycle was behind the bus and that responders were giving the bicyclist chest compressions, but he was not responding. The article reported that the bicyclist died at the scene.
Another witness told the paper that the driver waited for police and said he had not seen anyone before feeling that he hit something. The Daily News reported that the driver did not immediately face charges.