Cyclist hit by ‘drunk’ driver dies
A Brooklyn bicyclist who was struck by a drunken unlicensed driver last month has died from her injuries, police said Friday.
Nancy Pease, 55, was on her bike stopped at the intersection of 39th Street in Borough Park in Brooklyn with three other cyclists when Abel Antonio Pina Morocho, 39, rammed them with his Dodge Caravan — knocking them “over like dominoes,” witnesses and authorities said.
Pease and the other cyclists had been waiting for the light to change. Morocho pulled up to the bike-riders around 9:15 a.m. Sept. 10, stopped briefly, then suddenly plowed through the group, authorities said. He also allegedly struck a parked minivan during his joyride.
At the time, Pease and the others were participating in the 28th Annual NYC Century Bike Tour organized by bicycle-advocacy group Transportation Alternatives.
“He just turned into the bikers and started knocking them over like dominoes. It was a horrible scene,” Justianna Kubersky, who was participating in the tour, told the Post at the time. “We were just out for a peaceful Sunday bike ride, and then it just went crazy.”
The driver then stopped and reversed his car, backing over Pease and pinning her underneath, said witness Hector Mercado, 43.
Pease and a second victim, Brandon Painter, 31, were taken to Maimonides Hospital. She succumbed to her injuries Sept. 22, police said Friday.
Morocho was arrested at the scene and charged with vehicular assault, driving without a license and driving while ability impaired.