Friends’ wrestling match ends with man’s head crushed by box truck in Brooklyn

A container motortruck crushed a man’s caput aft helium fell onto the thoroughfare portion roughhousing successful Brooklyn connected Friday, police and witnesses told the Daily News.

The 30-year-old unfortunate was drinking with a person connected 60th St. adjacent Fourth Ave. successful Sunset Park erstwhile the brace started wrestling soon earlier 2:30 p.m., according to a witness.

The victim’s person shoved him disconnected the sidewalk and into the way of an oncoming motortruck heading westbound connected 60th St. and past desperately tried to propulsion him retired of harm’s way, the witnesser said.

“He pushed his person conscionable arsenic the motortruck was coming,” said Xochitl Mejia, 36. “As helium fell, his person tried to drawback him and propulsion him back.”

But it was excessively precocious for the antheral to prevention his friend, and the victim’s caput went nether the truck’s wheels, Mejia said.

“The motortruck went close implicit him,” she said. “He was dormant wrong seconds.”

A assemblage looks connected aft a antheral was fatally struck by a motortruck connected 60th St. adjacent Fourth Ave. successful Sunset Park, Brooklyn, connected Friday, Nov. 15, 2024. (Gardiner Anderson / New York Daily News)

Mejia described the man’s gruesome injuries disposable arsenic helium laic dormant connected 60th St.

“The wheels went close implicit his head,” she said. “It was smashed. There was humor coming from his rima and nose. It was horrible. It was conscionable horrible.”

Medics pronounced the unfortunate dormant astatine the scene.

The 53-year-old motortruck operator was taken to NYU Langone Hospital successful unchangeable condition, cops said.

The unfortunate leaves down 1 child, according to a relative.

“He was a bully man,” the household subordinate told a Daily News newsman astatine the scene.

The NYPD’s Highway Collision Investigation Squad volition analyse the crash. There were nary arrests.

Originally Published: November 15, 2024 astatine 6:43 PM EST