BROOKLYN COPS HUNT HIT-AND-RUN TRUCK DRIVER WHO KILLED BROOKLYN BICYCLIST WITH GARBAGE TRUCK

From: New York attorney Gary E. Rosenberg (personal injury and accident attorney and lawyer; serving Brooklyn Queens Bronx; Brooklyn Injury Attorney)

On July 7, 2010 a garbage truck owned by Action Carting Environmental struck and killed bicycle rider Timothy "TJ" Campbell, age 24, in a hit-and-run accident.

"TJ" was bike riding on Varick Avenue at 9 pm when the garbage truck struck him near Meserole Street in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and took off.

For reasons no one is explaining, the New York City police have grabbed the truck, but the driver is as yet unidentified.

Read more about bicycle accidents at my website.

Transportation Alternatives, a non-profit group that supports bicycle transportation, called for more bike lanes and better police enforcement. According to a N.Y.C. study, 94% of bike accident deaths last year were due to car, bus, truck or motorcycle driver inattention to the roadway or to traffic control devices.

The deadly accident came one day before a woman riding a Vespa was hit and killed by an SUV in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, and is one of several bicycle accident death cases in Brooklyn in the last year.