BIKER IS INJURED IN CRASH

Hits SUV in Brooklyn

A dirt biker was clinging to life at a hospital Thursday after blowing through a Brooklyn stop sign and crashing into an SUV, whose driver fled after the collision, police and witnesses said.

The victim was traveling west on Prospect Place in Weeksville around 2:30 a.m. when he sped past a stop sign and collided with the passenger side of a Kia Soul (photo) going north on Thomas S. Boyland St., cops said.

The Kia kept on going, striking a parked an unoccupied 2015 Nissan Altima, police said.

“I heard the accident first, and then from my windows I saw two people running to the corner,” witness David Reynolds told the Daily News. “The guy was on the floor, and another guy was talking to the EMT on the phone trying to help him. He was unzipping his jacket because the guy couldn’t breathe.”

As the dirt biker lay in the street, the Kia driver and his passenger abandoned the SUV and ran off. “I think the guy who hit him tried to drive away, because after he hit the bike he hit another car,” Reynolds said. “From where his car stopped, it looked like he wanted to reverse it and drive away but it couldn’t go. It was totaled.”

Medics took the wounded victim to Brookdale Hospital, where he remained in critical condition Thursday.

“You can tell the helmet and everything flew off. It was all on the sidewalk,” said Michelle Sanchez, who came to the scene as police investigated. “I looked at the helmet on the floor and thought, ‘Whoever it was didn’t survive.’ It was a nasty accident.”

“I don’t know if the guy survived,” Sanchez added. “From the look of it, he didn’t, because that bike was no bike no more, and his helmet was no helmet either. The bike and helmet looked cheap, what’s left of it is still here.”

Police confirmed that the victim was wearing a novelty German army helmet that was “not approved by the Department of Transportation.”

Crashes are common at the corner, Sanchez said. “That street has an accident everyday. Every single day,” she said. “Because they don’t see the stop sign, so they keep going. They need to put a light there. There was even a bus in an accident one time.”

People zipping up and down the street on dirt bikes are also commonplace, she said. “They all ride their bikes here, where they have no business,” she said. “But that still doesn’t give them the right to hit them.”

No arrests have been made.