Cyclist Killed In Queens Hit-And-Run, Police Say

FLUSHING, QUEENS -- New York City police are searching for the truck driver involved in a hit-and-run that killed a 23-year-old bicyclist in Queens.

Hugo Ramirez, of Flushing, was bicycling along 48th Street in Maspeth on Monday morning when a white Volvo tractor-trailer slammed into him in a right turn onto 53rd Avenue, police told Patch. The truck driver fled the scene, which was about a block away from an entrance ramp to the Long Island Expressway.

Officers responding to the 911 call at around 8 a.m. found Ramirez unconscious, sprawled on the street with severe head and body injuries, authorities said. He was rushed to Elmhurst Hospital, where he died.

Cops described the semi-truck involved in the hit-and-run as a white Volvo 18-wheeler carrying an empty flatbed trailer. The truck driver was last seen traveling eastbound along the Long Island Expressway, an NYPD spokesman said.

Anyone with information in regards to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477)

Lead image via Patch/Renee Schiavone.