USPS Truck Driver Faces Charge In UWS Cyclist's Death: Report

Upper West Side NY

11 November, 2021

2:36 PM

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UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — A United States Postal Service truck driver was charged recently charged with a misdemeanor after a biker was hit and killed on the Upper West Side in June, StreetsBlog reported on Thursday. The driver was charged with a count of failure to yield and a traffic summons for failure to exercise due caution, according to StreetsBlog. Jeffrey Williamson was fatally hit by the USPS truck on June 29 as he attempted to take a right turn off West 86th Street and Central Park West as the truck was also traveling northbound. Williamson had the right of way, according to StreetsBlog. "I'm happy he was charged with something, but a misdemeanor takes almost no consideration that my husband died," Williamson's widower, Christopher Brimer, told StreetsBlog. "He ran my husband down with a mail truck. The charge of 'failure to yield' doesn't even suggest that a man died. It's more like, 'Whoopsie, I guess I didn't look.'" You can read the full story on StreetsBlog's website.