Hit-and-run driver fleeing Harlem NYPD traffic stop fatally strikes bicyclist

A minivan driver fleeing an NYPD car stop in Harlem fatally struck a bicyclist, drove off and has not been caught, cops said Sunday.
The driver was behind the wheel of a Toyota minivan when cops tried to pull him over at W. 152nd St. and Broadway about 10:40 p.m. on Saturday, police said.
He sped east to W. 155th St. and St. Nicholas Ave., where he plowed into a man riding a bike, and kept going, cops said.
The bicyclist died at the scene. His name was not immediately released.
The driver has not been caught.
It wasn’t immediately clear if cops pursued the driver after he fled the car stop.
On Oct. 22, a Queens bicyclist was fatally struck by a pickup truck driver fleeing cops.
That collision renewed concerns that the NYPD, which last year decreed it was done letting suspects routinely speed away from police, is often too aggressive in chasing cars.
Cops pursued the Dodge Ram driver, suspected in a burglary in progress, for about a mile into Astoria from Long Island City, where he T-boned the 37-year-old bicyclist in the intersection of 37th St. and 34th Ave, police said.
Amanda Servedio had just pedaled into the intersection when she was struck by the oncoming Dodge Ram, shocking surveillance video obtained by the Daily News shows. An NYPD van was hot on the Dodge Ram’s heels with its lights flashing.
Servedio was thrown from her bike on to a parked car, police said.
The officers in the van abandoned the pursuit and stopped to render aid to Servedio as the Dodge Ram sped off, police said. The truck was later found abandoned.
Medics rushed Servedio to Elmhurst Hospital Center, but she couldn’t be saved. She was about eight blocks from home when she was struck.