Brooklyn e-bike rider fatally struck by FDNY EMS vehicle racing to emergency

A 25-year-old e-bike rider was fatally struck by an FDNY EMS vehicle racing to a Brooklyn emergency, constabulary said Thursday.

Victor Hildago was riding eastbound connected Sackett St. successful Park Slope erstwhile helium was struck by the passing EMS vehicle, which had its exigency lights flashing, adjacent Fourth Ave. astir 8:15 p.m. Wednesday.

The EMTs were racing to a study of a babe choking, FDNY officials said.

Hildago was thrown from his bike. Another EMS ambulance was called and took him to New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital but helium could not beryllium saved.

Hildago lived successful the Bronx, according to cops.

The 44-year-old operator of the EMS conveyance remained astatine the scene. No complaint were instantly filed.

The exigency regarding the babe choking was handled by different units, FDNY officials said. The EMS conveyance progressive successful the clang was 1 of 4 units called to that scene, officials said.

The clang marked the 2nd clip successful 9 days that a bicyclist was killed successful an incidental involving a metropolis exigency vehicle, officials said.

On Oct. 22, bicyclist Amanda Servido, 37, was fatally struck by a Dodge Ram pickup motortruck being pursued by an NYPD van past the country of 37th St. and 34th Ave in Astoria, Queens.

The fatal collision renewed concerns that the NYPD, which past twelvemonth decreed it was done letting suspects routinely velocity distant from police, is often excessively assertive successful chasing drivers.

The operator of the Dodge Ram abandoned the conveyance respective blocks distant from the clang and has not been caught.