UWS Teen Killed After Falling Off Trailer In The Bronx: Police

UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — A teenage boy from the Upper West Side was killed on Monday when he fell from a trailer and was run over by a truck driver in the Bronx, according to police.

Daniel Hernandez, 17, was standing on top of an unhitched box trailer that was parked on East 138th Street near the corner of Walnut Avenue just after 12:30 a.m. on Labor Day, police said.

As a 42-year-old man drove a tractor-trailer westbound along East 138th Street, Hernandez lost his balance and fell from the box trailer toward the street, police said.

Hernandez fell onto the exposed wheels of the moving trailer, got "pinched between the rotating rear wheels," and was then run over, police said in a statement.

Hernandez was pronounced dead at the scene. He lived at the NYCHA Amsterdam Houses near West 63rd Street, police said.

The driver stayed at the scene, police said. Police did not say why Hernandez had been on top of the trailer, or what caused him to lose his balance.

The Daily News reported that Hernandez had been living by himself in his Upper West Side apartment since his father was hospitalized two months ago.

"He was a good boy, always with his father," one neighbor told the newspaper. "His dad’s sun and moon, his everything, was his son."

An investigation is ongoing by the NYPD's highway collision investigation squad.