that's the headline the Daily News gave it, and it's appropriate enough:

B'klyn bike horror

Woman, 28, killed by truck

By NANCY DILLON
and JONATHAN LEMIRE
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

Jose Cruz, driver of ice cream truck that ran over and killed bicyclist, a lawyer.

Body of Elizabeth Padilla is covered at Park Slope intersection after cyclist fell while riding between trucks and was crushed.
A bicyclist who tried to squeeze between two trucks on a bustling Brooklyn street was crushed to death yesterday after she fell underneath one of the rigs, police said.
As Elizabeth Padilla, a 28-year-old lawyer, attempted to pass a 10-wheel Edy's Ice Cream truck, the driver of another truck parked on Fifth Ave. in Park Slope opened his door, witnesses said.

Padilla swerved to avoid the door but hit the side of the moving ice cream truck, causing her to topple under the vehicle's large rear wheels, police said.

She was killed instantly, just six blocks from her apartment.

"She's just the most wonderful, caring individual I've ever met," her husband's stunned uncle said last night outside her Berkeley Place apartment.

The uncle, who declined to give his name, said Padilla was a graduate of Cornell Law School and worked as an attorney for a nonprofit group.

She ran in marathons and rode her bike often, he said.

"She was a guide for a blind man in a bike race," he said. "That says it all. That's the type of person she was."

Padilla's shoes were torn from her feet during the 9 a.m. collision and remained clipped into the pedals of her high-end aluminum bike hours after the wreck.

Witness George Zampetis, 51, and another pedestrian chased down the ice cream truck and stopped it two blocks away, telling the driver, "You just killed a woman," he said.

"He didn't realize he hit her," said Juan Santiago, 48, a construction worker. "He was totally shocked."

The ice cream truck driver, Jose Cruz, sat with his head in his hands near the driver of the P.C. Richard & Son truck who opened his door. Cops did not give a summons to either driver.

"It was an accident," said Ioseb Peikrishuili, who was behind the wheel of the P.C. Richard truck. "I didn't see her."

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