A Fort Greene cyclist was mangled on Friday in a brutal hit-and-run in Williamsburg — and now her friends are on the hunt for the merciless driver who left her for dead.
Serena Rio, 21, was riding near S. Fourth Street and Wythe Avenue at about 2:30 pm when a car slammed into her and fled, leaving her lying on the pavement with broken ribs, a punctured lung and missing teeth. Rio miraculously survived....
In Brooklyn, a handful of cyclists have been killed over the past year — two were killed on one day in April — in a series of hit-and-run collisions.
Meanwhile, cops continue to fine cyclists in a ticketing blitz to enforce bike laws — yet most of the cases of biker deaths in Brooklyn in the last year have been the driver’s fault.
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It's pretty frustrating. People aren't using as many cars and so the state has to tax them for riding bikes. I was riding down Market in SF and there were 3 cops pulling bikes aside at a stop light and handing out tickets. One guy got a ticket for not having reflectors though he had blinking bike-lights. The bike lane is used to keep people safe but it's like shooting fish in a barrel for cops. It's a hidden tax. I now take a more dangerous street to work without a bike lane.
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