On Mon, 19 Nov 2007, "Roger Zoul" <rogerzoul2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>"The son of Brooklyn Brewery co-founder and former Newsday editor Stephen
>Hindy, Sam Hindy of Brooklyn died Friday of head and torso injuries after
he
>fell from the upper deck of the Manhattan Bridge to the lower deck and
was
>struck by a car. He was 27. "
>
>How did he manage to fall from the upper to lower deck? Was something
wrong
>with the bridge?
The Times has more detail:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/18/nyregion/18bike.html
Bicyclist Killed in Fall on Bridge
Published: November 18, 2007
A bicyclist riding on the Manhattan Bridge late Friday died after taking a
wrong turn and flipping over a retaining wall on the bridge’s upper level,
causing him to fall 15 feet to the lower level, where he was hit by a car.
The man, Sam Hindy, 27, of Eighth Street in Brooklyn, was riding shortly
before midnight with a friend on the bridge when they decided to turn
around.
Mr. Hindy’s father, Steve Hindy, said the police told him that the two
riders had taken the wrong ramp and found themselves on the roadway with
trucks and cars.
“Obviously, it was dangerous,” the elder Mr. Hindy said. “So, they pulled
into the middle, into a construction area, away from the roadway.”
But the construction area ends suddenly, he said, and his son “hit a low
concrete barrier, a retaining wall, and fell” 15 feet. He was then hit by
a
Brooklyn-bound 1995 Toyota, the police said.
The other rider stopped in time and was unhurt.
Mr. Hindy, a computer engineer with Double Click, a digital marketing firm
in Manhattan, suffered massive head trauma and was pronounced dead at New
York Downtown Hospital at 12:30 a.m. yesterday.
Steve Hindy, 58, is a founder of Brooklyn Brewery. The rider’s mother is
Ellen Foote, principal of Intermediate School 89 in Battery Park City.
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