BAD DAY FOR NEW YORK CITY BICYCLE RIDERS
From: New York attorney Gary E. Rosenberg (personal injury and accident attorney and lawyer; serving Brooklyn Queens Bronx; Queens Injury Lawyer)
FIRST:
A woman jogging along Manhattan's West Side Highway was jabbed by the handlebar of a passing bicyclist after the two collided in a crosswalk, according to authorities and witnesses.
The handlebar punctured the 54-year-old victim's arm in the noontime collision today near Laight Street in TriBeCa, said an FDNY spokesman.
"People were standing around trying to get the bicycle loose," said Julia Martin, 70, who was riding her bike when she came upon the accident.
The victim called 911 and responding firefighters were able to free the woman, said a source.
The jogger was taken to Bellevue Hospital, where she is listed in stable condition.
The cyclist was uninjured and not charged in the incident, the source added.
SECOND:
Two eagle-eyed medics helped catch a hit-and-run motorist who struck a bicyclist and parked car in Greenwich Village yesterday, sources said.
The New York City EMTs, Rodolfo Seddio and Frank Laino Jr., got the plate number from the car that fled the 9 a.m. crash on Hudson Street, near West 12th Street -- and called cops, who arrested the driver when they spotted the vehicle later on the Lower East Side.
