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Videos that have just come out show the tragic moment when an American coach bus hit a Chelsea street and hit a Citi Bike rider and crashed it fatally under his rear wheel.
The surveillance footage, released Thursday in The Post, shows Dan Hanegby, wearing big headphones on his ear, pedaling east on West 26th Street to Eighth Avenue on June 12, 2017.
While the bus, driven by 52-year-old Dave Lewis, runs to his left, 36-year-old Hanegby looks unconscious, glancing down the sidewalk.
The victim, who is now sandwiched between the bus and a parked white van, appears to be looking at the bus to the left for a fraction of a second before banging the bike and falling under the rear wheel.
The 50,000-pound bus rolls over Hanegby, according to disturbing images, which were played at the Manhattan Criminal Court in Lewis's non-jury trial.
Lewis is charged with a misdemeanor and a traffic violation for the death of Hanegby, a Credit Suisse banker and father of two, who was going to work that morning.
After the terrible collision, the videos show that Hanegby rolls to his left side, takes off his backpack, and falls on his back. He raises his right hand and places it on his head as passers-by begin to encircle him.
Prosecutors argued that Lewis acted imprudently in not giving priority to Hanegby. The driver honked but did not slow down.
"After appreciating the situation, he did not stop," said Raffaela Belizaire to Judge Heidi Cesare. "It was dangerous to try to pass, to try to get through."
Defense lawyer Jeremy Saland blamed the accident on Hanegby, who was not wearing a helmet and wearing headphones.
The investment banker did not pay attention and the headphones blocked the sound of the horn.
The death of Hanegby marked the first death of Citi Bike since the launch of the carpool program in 2013.
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