Tears for Bx. cyclist

AN AVID Bronx cyclist killed in a hit-and-run by a delivery truck was mourned and remembered Tuesday night at the scene of the crash.

Carlos Vasquez, who hopped around the country as a long-distance mover, loved nothing more than unwinding with a bike ride though the borough.

He was crushed under the wheels of box truck he was riding beside heading southbound on Webster Ave. near Ittner Place on Friday, according to police. The driver has not been found.

“My son loved to ride his bicycle every evening,” his mother Maria Ruiz, 42, said. “When he wasn’t working he’d ride to the Grand Concourse to Fordham and back. He wasn’t reckless, he wasn’t someone who would be riding at night.”

About 75 cyclists, many from Vasquez’s regular crew turned out for the unveiling of an all-white “ghost bike” marking the spot where he died (photo).

“Every driver knows when you hit something you stop,” Ruiz said. “I just want justice for my son.”

Bronx City Councilman Ritchie Torres called on the city to improve street safety.

“There’s nothing accidental about the city failing to bring to justice people who kill other people with a vehicle,” he said. “Here in the Bronx we deserve the same level of safety as they do in Manhattan, Queens or Park Slope.”