Deadly crash that killed a delivery cyclist and injured four others in New York

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A reckless driver traveling at out-of-control speeds killed one cyclist and injured three more people inside other cars before crashing into a parked truck to end the carnage on Thursday night on the busy main street of Harlem.

The 8 p.m. crash comes just a few days after Mayor Mamdani was criticized by the pro-car right for announcing that speed-limit reductions in school zones would be in effect all day, not just during school hours.

According to police, the 49-year-old driver of a red Hyundai was heading eastbound on W. 125th Street and was near Frederick Douglass Boulevard when he struck a 33-year-old male bicyclist and a 28-year-old male bicyclist in the right lane of the wide roadway. ABC7 said both men were delivery workers.

The driver, whom the Daily News reported was speeding, continued east and struck a Toyota Rav 4, injuring its 40-year-old occupant, and a parked Lexus that was occupied by two men, 28 and 23. Both of those men were injured, too.

"We heard the banging noise like that car crashing like maybe two or three times, it was very fast," said witness, Sunny Singh, who works at a jewelry store on the block. "It was scary. I never saw one car going as fast as that. He was driving faster than on a highway! He was going like a bullet."

Of the cyclist, Singh said, "He got killed for nothing. He was doing nothing wrong."

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