A 65-year-old man was killed during a collision of two trucks on the Long Island Expressway in Bayside on Wednesday morning.
The victim was behind the wheel of a Ford F-550 Super Duty Rack Truck when it became disabled just after 5 a.m., and he pulled over on the westbound shoulder near Exit 27 to the Clearview Expressway.
He got out to inspect his vehicle and was standing alongside it when the 60-year-old operator of a white Peterbilt flatbed truck heading towards the exit smashed into the rear left corner of the disabled truck, causing it to strike the 65-year-old man, according to an NYPD spokesman.
Police from the 111th Precinct in Bayside responded to a 911 call of a motor vehicle collision involving a pedestrian, police said Thursday. EMS pronounced him dead at the scene. The deceased was later identified as Rajinder Singh of Glen Cove on Long Island’s North Shore.
The westbound lanes on the Long Island Expressway were closed for much of the morning rush.
The operator of the Peterbilt truck remained on scene and was not arrested. The NYPD’s Highway Collision Investigation Squad is investigating the fatal crash.
