Man Hit By Bus As He Lay On Park Avenue Dies, Police Say

GRAMERCY, NY — A man who was run over by an MTA bus last month has died from his injuries, according to the man's family.

Oswaldo Arevalo Jr. died on Aug. 17, more than a month after he was critically injured after a bus ran him over he was while laying in the roadway, according to a funeral announcement. Police say that Arevalo, 30, was lying in the middle of the Park Avenue South near East 22nd Street early in the morning on July 15.

The MTA bus driver said he didn't see Arevalo in the roadway or realize he had hit him, according to the New York Daily News, which was first to report on Arevalo's death. Arevalo suffered severe head trauma and was transported to the hospital for treatment, authorities said.

An NYPD spokeswoman was not able to provide additional details about the collision to Patch. (For more information on this and other neighborhood stories, subscribe to Patch to receive daily newsletters and breaking news alerts.)

Arevalo was a resident of Union City, New Jersey, according to his obituary. In a Facebook post, Arevalo's father wrote that he son died in his arms.

"It is so difficult to express what I feel. What I lived with him, how he fought for his life, how he passed away in my arms, and feeling his last breath," his father wrote, according to a translation of the original post. "It is something I wouldn't want anyone in this world to experience but on the other hand, it is the way he would have wanted it, to be alongside me, his father and his friend."

No one has been arrested, an NYPD spokeswoman told Patch.

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