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FDNY EMS vehicle involved in fatal collision with e-bike rider during response

An EMS officer was responding to a call for a choking baby in Brooklyn at the time of the collision

By Thomas Tracy
New York Daily News

NEW YORK — A 24-year-old e-bike rider was fatally struck by an FDNY EMS vehicle racing to a Brooklyn emergency, police said Thursday.

Victor Hildago was riding east on Sackett St. in Park Slope when he was struck by the passing EMS vehicle, which had its emergency lights flashing, near Fourth Ave. about 8:15 p.m. Wednesday.

The EMTs were racing to a report of a baby 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 he could not be saved.

Hildago lived in the Bronx, according to cops.

The 44-year-old driver of the EMS vehicle remained at the scene. No charges were immediately filed.


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The emergency regarding the baby choking was handled by other units, FDNY officials said. The EMS vehicle involved in the crash was one of four units called to that scene, officials said.

The crash marked the second time in nine days that a bicyclist was killed in an incident involving a city emergency vehicle, officials said.

On Oct. 22, bicyclist Amanda Servedio, 36, was fatally struck by a Dodge Ram pickup truck being pursued by an NYPD van past the corner of 37th St. and 34th Ave in Astoria, Queens.

The fatal collision renewed concerns that the NYPD, which last year decreed it was done letting suspects routinely speed away from police, is often too aggressive in chasing drivers.

The driver of the Dodge Ram abandoned the vehicle several blocks away from the crash and has not been caught.

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