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Shocking video captured the moment an e-bike rider slammed into a 3-year-old girl as she ran toward a Brooklyn bike lane over the weekend.
The footage, posted on X by Williamsburg 365 News, shows the unaware tot, who appeared to have just stepped out of a double-parked car with a man — scurrying into the lane at Bedford and Park avenues around 7:40 p.m. Sunday when the oncoming cyclist struck her.
Cops said the girl was miraculously merely sideswiped as the biker headed south on Bedford Avenue, although the impact of the bike knocked the skirt-and-sweater-wearing toddler off her feet, according to the footage.
A 3-year-old girl heads into a bike lane at Bedford and Park avenues in Willliamsburg, Brooklyn, as an e-bike rider is about to whiz by, video shows. Obtained by the NY Post
The girl was only sideswiped by the e-bike. Obtained by the NY PostThe man who was with child — and just steps behind her when she was struck — then swooped her into his arms as a woman got out of the double-parked car.
The girl was hospitalized with minor injuries to her stomach, police said. Obtained by the NY PostThe blow left the youngster with minor injuries to her lower stomach, and she was taken to Bellevue Hospital, cops said.
The cyclist, a 22-year-old man seen with a bag hanging on the back of his ride — possibly a delivery rider — stayed at the scene and was not arrested.
