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Man Struck & Killed By Truck At Treacherous Manhattan Intersection
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Christopher Robbins
Published Jan 20, 2013
Modified Jan 20, 2013
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A 66-year-old retired postal worker was struck and killed by a garbage truck on Friday afternoon in the same intersection where Marilyn Dershowitz was killed in July of 2011. Victim Thomas Berry was about to cross Ninth Avenue at West 29th Street on Friday afternoon when he tripped and fell under the wheels of a passing garbage truck. The driver remained at the scene, and no criminality is suspected. "He was a hard, honest worker. He was a gem of a guy,” a neighborhood bartender told the Post, which also notes that Berry was likely walking to the mail facility to pick up his final paycheck.
A witness to the incident, John Carmitchel, told DNAinfo that the truck driver "didn't see [Berry]" and that "It wasn't [the truck driver's] fault." The intersection is near a dark stretch of road underneath the Morgan General U.S. Mail Facility. Dershowitz was riding her bike with her husband when she was struck and killed by a mail truck. The truck driver was recently acquitted of wrongdoing by a jury.
According to the most recent motor vehicle accident report from the NYPD [PDF], 276 cyclists and 1,034 pedestrians were injured in traffic in November 2012. Eight pedestrians were killed.
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Christopher Robbins
Christopher Robbins is a New York City reporter covering transportation, affordable housing, local politics, and criminal justice. His work has also appeared in New York Magazine, The Village Voice and The New York Times. Chris is a graduate of Patrick Henry High School in Roanoke, Virginia, and enjoys biking to Fort Tilden in the summertime.
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