Originally Posted by
CliffordK
Granted; I missed that. But the bike was hit on the left side, and the truck is right next to the island in the photo, so either the truck forgot to get into the turn lane, and ended up turning onto the cyclist from the through lane (on the left side of the bike lane) or the cyclist was in the turn lane. Who could tell, without seeing the accident report? Seems to me it's unlikely that the cyclist was going down the bike lane the wrong direction, because he was hit on his left side, though lord knows we see enough bike-salmoning here, and it's gotten completely out of control during the pandemic.
Here's another story by a bike advocacy group, with a bit more detail in the description at the bottom of the page:
https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2021/06/...-side-cyclist/
It claims that both truck and cyclist were heading north, suggests encroachment by the truck onto the bike lane to make the turn, and decries the problems with USPS drivers hitting pedestrians and cyclists.