Dad didn’t come home
Driver nabbed in B’klyn hit-run
EVERY NIGHT, Brooklyn resident Yan Ping Ma and her family wait for her father to come home and cook another of his special dishes.
Tuesday night it was going to be pork ribs and fish, but the meal never came.
Her father, Can Reng Ma, 54, on his way home from work, was killed on his bicycle by a hit-andrun driver behind the wheel of a Ryder truck, witnesses said.
“His whole pelvis was broken, his lungs, liver,” Yan Ping Ma, 23, said.
“And the driver just hit and run, leaving my father lying on the floor.”
Can Reng Ma was on his bike at about 5 p.m. after finishing a day’s work as a laborer at a Coney Island lumber supply company, when he was run down on Avenue U and E. Ninth St. in Homecrest, cops said.
Paramedics rushed him to Kings County Hospital, where he died of his injuries.
Speaking at the family’s home in Bensonhurst, Yan Ping Ma said she, her 17-year-old brother and her mother were waiting for her father to come home and cook another of their favorite meals.
Ma’s wife, Li Hua Wu, was inconsolable Tuesday night, his daughter said.
“She was crying for the whole night,” the daughter said. “She couldn’t eat, she couldn’t sleep.”
The family emigrated from China seven years ago.
“We are new immigrants,” the daughter said. “My father was innocent . . . and he worked so hard to support the family.”
Police on Wednesday arrested the driver, Junior Hicks, 31, of Queens Village, and charged him with leaving the scene of a fatal accident. The announcement came as cops were preparing to release a photo of a Ryder box truck to the media.
“I really want to ask him why he (did) that to my father and leave my father there,” Yan Ping Ma said. “Maybe if he had stopped and called 911, he’d still be alive.”
Ma’s death comes amid a drop in pedestrian and bicyclist fatalities in the city for the second straight year.
The number of traffic-related fatalities fell to 231 in 2015 from 257 in 2014 — a drop of about 10% officials said, touting Mayor de Blasio’s Vision Zero street safety initiative.
Mayor de Blasio said 2015 was the safest on city streets since 1910.
“The work is not over until no New Yorker loses their life, no New Yorker loses a loved one walking, or cycling, or driving on our streets,” de Blasio said at a news conference this week.
Anyone with information about Tuesday’s hit and run is asked to call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.
I really want to ask him why he (did) that to my father ... Maybe if he had stopped and called 911, he’d still be alive.
— Yan Ping Ma