Police: Delivery worker on e-bike killed by hit-and-run SUV

NEW YORK (AP) - A food delivery worker on an electric bicycle was fatally struck by .a sport utility vehicle in Manhattan, police said.

Forty-two-year-old Ernesto Guzman was riding an e-bike on the Upper East Side at about 4:30 p.m. Sunday when he was hit by a black SUV, police said. Guzman was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

The driver fled the scene, police said. They said the SUV was found unoccupied two blocks from the crash scene.

Danny Harris, the executive director of the advocacy group Transportation Alternatives, said Guzman was at least the 20th person to be killed in traffic while riding a bicycle in New York City this year.

Harris said Guzman was killed by “a driver wielding a 5,500-pound Chevrolet Tahoe SUV.” He said delivery workers are at risk “because of constant exposure to impatient drivers piloting multi-ton assault vehicles on streets designed to move and store cars.”