Construction Worker Dies After Bus Crashes into Boom Lift
Injuries from the MTA bus collision killed Vladamir Cruz, a construction worker from the Bronx.
Police are investigating a fatal collision between a boom lift and an MTA bus that resulted in the death of a construction worker.
On Jan. 26 at approximately 9:34 p.m., an MTA bus traveling southbound on Fifth Avenue struck a boom lift that was protruding into the roadway in midtown Manhattan, according to a police spokesperson.
On the lift was a 39-year-old worker who police have identified as Vladamir Cruz. [The New York Daily News reported that the worker’s first name is spelled Vladimir.] He was changing the Victoria’s Secret flagship billboard on 51st Street and Fifth Avenue when the accident occurred.
Victoria’s Secret’s client relations department has not gotten back with a statement.
The crash threw Cruz off the platform, causing him to hit the pavement below and sustain severe head and body trauma. EMS responded to the scene and transported Cruz to Bellevue Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
The 44-year old bus driver operating the MTA bus remained on the scene. The NYPD Highway Districts Collision Investigation Squad is conducting an investigation, but no arrests have been made.
According to the NYPD spokesperson, Cruz lived in the Melrose neighborhood of the Bronx. No further information about his identity or family has been released.