NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — A Brooklyn bicyclist was fatally struck by a flatbed truck amid a spike in cyclist deaths across the city, police said Wednesday.
Adam Uster, 39, was heading home from a grocery run in an unprotected bike lane on Franklin Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant around 11:30 a.m. Monday when the driver heading in the same direction made a right turn onto Lexington Avenue, cops said.
Uster, who was about a mile-and-a-half from home, was knocked off his bike and was pronounced dead at New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital.
Police said the driver remained at the scene, and no charges were immediately filed. An investigation is ongoing.
Annie Goldner, Uster's mother, told Streetsblog that her son was a cycling advocate and a member of Transportation Alternatives.
Goldner said Adam was returning from the grocery store with a bicycle trailer full of groceries when he was struck.
"The last thing I said to him was, 'Be safe,'" she told the website. "He went out the door, took his bike, went to Wegmans."
Uster's death comes as New York City has seen a sixfold spike in bicyclist deaths compared to last year.
According to NYPD statistics, as of April 27, police had investigated 12 bicycling deaths, compared to two recorded at the same time in 2022.
