Woman in intensive care after being struck by fleeing bicyclist on First Avenue and 86th St. in Manhattan-NBC News

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6/12/15, "Woman in Intensive Care After Being Struck by Fleeing Bicyclist on Upper East Side: Police, Family," NBCNews.com, Roseanne Colletti

"Police are looking for a bicyclist who hit a 67-year-old woman on a Manhattan street, then pedaled away, leaving the woman to bleed and seize on the ground, her daughter says. 

The cyclist hit Mary Grace Belfi just after she parked her car on First Avenue and 86th Street Tuesday afternoon. She and her daughter were heading to lunch, and Belfi was crossing a bike lane on First Avenue to bring a muni-meter ticket back to the car when she was hit, her daughter said. 

"I was in the passenger seat and I saw him whizzing by out of the periphery of my eye, and I saw her just drop," said Lilly Belfi. 
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"She was on the ground unconscious, seizing, bleeding everywhere. Blood was coming out of her nose and mouth," she said.

Mary Grace Belfi is now in intensive care with extensive bleeding on the brain, a broken nose and a broken collarbone, according to Lilly Belfi. 

It should be a happy time: Lilly Belfi is expecting her first child at the end of the month -- Mary Grace Belfi's fifth grandson. 

"I'm really scared for her. I'm praying for her. It's really sad," said Lilly Belfi. 

Lilly Belfi said the bike was red with white front shocks; the cyclist was wearing denim shorts with knee braces, a blue T-shirt, a brown cap and a blue-and-white helmet. 

Police said they're investigating the case as a collision and are continuing to look for the cyclist."
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Deaths and brain injuries from bikes in Manhattan:

 8/14/14, "Teen Cyclist Kills Elderly Jogger In Central Park," Gothamist, Rebecca Fishbein
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7/28/14, "Salmoning Cyclist Sends Pedestrian To Hospital With Serious Head Injury," Gothamist, John Del Signore
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"A cyclist collided with a pedestrian near Washington Square Park this afternoon, sending him to the hospital with a serious head injury. A witness says the unidentified pedestrian was crossing Washington Square West when the cyclist turned left off of West 4th Street, pedaling against traffic. (Washington Square West is a one way street heading south.)"...  
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Biker didn't try to stop, his bike was "brakeless"

9/18/14, "Woman brain-dead after getting hit by cyclist in Central Park," NY Post, by Larry Celona, Erin Calabrese, Kirstan Conley and Bruce Golding

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"A cyclist pedaling a $4,000 racing bike at high speed through Central Park slammed into a suburban mom in town shopping for her daughter’s birthday present — leaving the woman brain-dead, sources said....

Witness Phillip Fenton, 21, visiting New York on a geography field trip from England’s University of Exeter, said Marshall was “speeding,” adding, “It didn’t look like he tried to stop.

“He was yelling for her to get out of the way, but I don’t think she heard him,” Fenton added.

Fenton’s pal Tom Longman said Marshall was hunched over the brakeless, triathlon-style “aerobars” attached to the handlebars of his high-performance, yellow and black ride.

“She went down pretty hard,” Longman said. “The right side of her face looked very bad. There was blood all over her.”"...
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9/21/14, "Bicycle-pedestrian crash injuries rose in 2013," NY Post, Laura Italiano and Andrea Ray

"Crashes between cyclists and pedestrians spun out of control last year, with 316 injuries citywide, up from 244 in 2012."....
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9/19/14, "Woman, 58, in Critical Condition After Being Struck by Cyclist in Central Park," NY Times, Benjamin Mueller and Kia Gregory


"“They feel as if they own the city,” she said. "They feel as if they own the roads. And you cannot touch them.”"...

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Bicycle groups are very powerful today:

Bikes are "shock troops." via Democrats Against UN Agenda 21:

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