A worker was killed Sunday night when an MTA bus hit the mobile boom lift he was using to replace a billboard at the flagship Victoria’s Secret store on Fifth Avenue, police said.
A 37-year-old worker was killed when an MTA bus traveling in midtown Manhattan struck a small boom lift on the sidewalk and flung the man who was in its bucket onto the pavement, according to police.
The aerial lift was overhead of active traffic. The construction worker was inside the bucket seat of the aerial lift, and was ejected from it when the semi truck struck it. Authorities closed the ...
was in the bucket of a boom lift “protruding into the roadway” as he worked outside the store on Fifth Ave. near E. 51st St. around 9:35 p.m. Sunday, an NYPD spokesperson said. (Google ...