A 19-year-old construction worker was killed in Manhattan when he was struck by a cherry picker truck in what is being investigated as a deadly accident, police said.
The incident occurred around 8:30 a.m. Friday near the corner of First Avenue and Seventh Street in the East Village, according to police. The details surrounding what happened were not immediately clear, but the worker was somehow struck as the vehicle was moving. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
The 42-year-old operator of the construction vehicle remained at the scene, and criminality was not suspected. An investigation by the NYPD Highway District Collision Investigation Squad was ongoing.
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