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Forest Hills man dies after riding bicycle into a car in Rego Park

By Bill Parry

REGO PARK — An 84-year-old Forest Hills man died Monday two weeks after he rode his bicycle into a car in Rego Park, police said.

An 80-year-old woman was driving a 2015 Toyota Camry, traveling west on Fleet Street, when she came to a stop sign at Alderton Street,.

As the entered the intersection, cyclist Yau-Teg Fung, who was traveling north on Alderton Street, struck the driver’s side rear door of the Toyota Camry, before falling to the ground, police said.

Officers from the 112th Precinct in Forest Hills, responding to a 911 call of a motor vehicle collision, arrived on the scene just before 3 p.m. and discovered Fung with severe head trauma. EMS transported Fung to Elmhurst Hospital Center, where he died Monday, according to the NYPD.

There have been no arrests and the investigation was ongoing.