Family, friends and city officials came together last week for a vigil in memory of Danny Vidal, a delivery worker who died after being run over by a driver near the Bushwick/Williamsburg border.
Vidal, 30, was starting his morning driving down Morgan Avenue on Aug. 4 when police say he fell off his scooter in the bike lane, and a truck turning left from Meadow Street subsequently ran over him. Vidal, a member of local organizing group for delivery workers Los Deliveristas Unidos, was pronounced dead upon arriving at Elmhurst Hospital.
“You can still see his blood,” said Vidal’s father, Miguel Naula, pointing to a patch of dark streaks on the bike lane’s green pavement. “He was only 30.”
Naula himself recalled having a similar accident on his bike at the same intersection only a few years ago.
