By Tara Kyle
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
MANHATTAN — A bicyclist died after being crushed under the back wheel of an MTA Express bus on the Upper East Side, according to police.
The deceased, identified as Brooklyn resident Qi Yu Weng, 28, was riding an electric bike south on Second Avenue, at 96th Street, around 4 p.m. Friday when the accident occurred, according to the NYPD.
The south-bound bus then continued on its route. The driver was found when he returned to his depot and is thought to have not known the accident had occurred.
Witness Kazi Hoque, 55, told the New York Daily News that the bus's back wheel crushed the victim's head as the driver tried to avoid hitting a car.
"The car swerved in front of the bus. The bus tried to avoid an accident and curved into the delivery guy," Hoque told the Daily News. "He didn't even see him."
Police do not currently suspect any criminal action.
Hoque told the Daily News that he believes that traffic chaos caused by ongoing construction on the Second Avenue subway is partly to blame.
The New York Post reported that the victim's family suspected the same thing.
"The construction kills everything around here, and now it kills people," Hoque told the Daily News.
