An ambulance racing to an emergency struck and killed a motorcyclist Friday morning in East Harlem, authorities and witnesses said.
The New York Presbyterian ambulance was heading eastbound on East 96th Street with lights and sirens on when it collided with a silver Yamaha motorcycle going south on Lexington Avenue at 9:40 a.m., cops said.
Stunned onlookers said the biker, 44, was thrown from his ride and wedged under the ambulance’s tire.
“It was horrible. The biker’s head was underneath the wheel,” said George Zhang, a 17-year-old student. “He hurt mostly his face and his head.”
A second ambulance soon arrived on the scene and rushed the motorcyclist to Metropolitan Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival, officials said.
Police are withholding the name of the deceased pending family notification.
It was not immediately clear who had the light, and officials said the investigation is ongoing.