He’s OK folks! Toppled tourist Porter Nielson, age 7, is fine after being struck by a bicyclist on the Brooklyn Bridge. (robert miller)
A 7-year-old tourist from Utah got flattened on the Brooklyn Bridge last night after a bicyclist slammed into the boy walking with his family.
Porter Nielsen, of Salt Lake City, was checking out the sights over the East River with his mom, dad and two siblings when rider Reynaldo Morales collided with him at 5:17 p.m.
The boy was placed in a neck brace and taken to Bellevue Hospital. His injures were not believed to be serious.
Morales was riding in the bike lane on the bridge’s boardwalk, and the Nielsen family was walking in the pedestrian lane when they ran into each other near the Prospect Street exit on the Brooklyn side of the span.
It was not clear last night why the crash occurred.
Morales, of Brooklyn, was not hurt and received no citation. He said he’s upset about the injuries to the boy.
“It was just an accident. I was riding and it was dark and the kid popped out of nowhere,” he said, adding: “I wasn’t worried if I got hurt. I was only worried for the kid. He’s only 7.”