New York Daily News

Cops: We got driver who hit bike-riding Queens boy

- BY MARCO POGGIO, THOMAS TRACY AND GRAHAM RAYMAN

Cops arrested a suspect in a Queens hit-and-run Monday that left a young boy riding his bike in the hospital, officials said.

Agostinho Sinclair, 41, of Queens was arrested Tuesday afternoon for allegedly leaving the scene of the crash.

“I don't know how someone can just hit a child and leave him there alone, to die. It's unbelievab­le ,” said Kerri en Good en ,38, the victim' s aunt. “Why he didn't stop? He could have killed him! Accidents happen. He could have stopped to help.”

The 11-year-old victim, identified by family as Richard Glanville, was pedaling his bike along Healy Ave. near Dickens St. in Bayswater at about 7:40 p.m. when he was struck by a black sedan.

Surveillan­ce video posted on Twitter by @NYCityAler­ts shows the moment of impact. The boy flies from his bike and bounces off the windshield as the car keeps going, dragging his bicycle a short distance.

“It's crazy. It's unbelievab­le,” she said. “He was just riding a bike like a regular day and then we got a call that he was just hit by a car and the person left the scene,” she said. “He could have died. He got hit in the head.”

Medics took the boy, who is seen on video sitting up next to his bike, to North Shore University Hospital. He was expected to survive, cops said.

“He's doing fine,” Gooden said, noting the child's parents were at the hospital with him. “He's doing better than yesterday.”

Cops on Tuesday recovered the car allegedly used in the crash on Bay 28th St. It was covered with garbage bags, allegedly to hide the damage.

A volunteer for the Rockaway Nassau Safety Patrol, a neighborho­od watch group, said one of their members located the car and notified police.

Sinclair was charged with reckless endangerme­nt, leaving the scene of an accident and aggravated unlicensed operator. He has no prior arrests, police said.

Gooden said no one in the family has ever been involved in a car accident.

“Hopefully he will be the only one and the last one,” she said, referring to the boy.

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