Metro

Central Park jogger killed by cyclist

An elderly jogger training for the New York City Marathon was fatally struck by a cyclist in Central Park, authorities said Wednesday.

The 17-year-old biker hit Irving Schachter, 75, while trying to avoid a pedicab driver on the East Drive Loop about 4:50 p.m. August 3, cops said.

Schachter passed away two days later at New York Presbyterian Hospital of a head injury.

The cyclist was not charged with a crime or given a summons.

Schachter, who lived with his wife on the Upper East Side, was actually a biker as well, and a member of the New York Cycle Club. His wife Hindy broke the news of his death on its message board Monday.

“Many of us see cyclists as potential victims of cars,” she wrote. “And we are . . . We are also potential predators.”

She wrote that after the accident, she walked through Central Park and saw many bikers in the runner’s lane — including one defiant cyclist who told her he knew he was there when she pointed it out to him.

“One careless move on a bike and we can take down a runner, a walker, a child skipping along,” she said.

Stuart Gruskin, 50, of New Jersey was the last pedestrian to be killed by a biker, and died in 2009. He was hit by a delivery bicyclist going the wrong way in Midtown.

On Wednesday, the NYPD cracked down on cyclists with a 14-day operation targeting safety violations as part of Vision Zero.

The summonses are for offenses like biking the wrong way, or riding on a sidewalk. Cops also said they would target drivers in bike lanes.