A man studying to be a rabbi was fatally run over by a city sanitation truck while crossing the street in Crown Heights on Sunday, sources said.
Gedalia Gruntzweig, 25 — who attends rabbinical school in Morristown, NJ, and was in Brooklyn for a pal’s engagement party — was walking with a friend when he was struck on Carroll Street at Kingston Avenue around 9:15 a.m., according to law-enforcement sources.
“I heard these terrible screams,” said witness Abraham Greisman. “All I saw was the truck, the driver getting out, pacing back and forth. He must have been in shock.”
Surveillance video from a nearby store showed that the sanitation truck had the green light when it turned and that Gruntzweig was not looking when he stepped into the crosswalk, said a resident who lives in the building and saw the footage, which was turned over to cops.
No summonses were issued, and the driver was released.
“Apparently, they didn’t see the truck,” said community activist Geoffrey Davis, who saw other video surveillance of the incident. “The truck made a turn, and boom! Ran over him with both tires. Tragic.”
Brooklyn Councilwoman Laurie Cumbo said Gruntzweig was originally from the Ukraine and in Brooklyn to attend a friend’s pre-wedding party.
“This is something that is just so tragic for this community, for where he lives and his family abroad as well,” Cumbo said.
The Sanitation Department refused to say what the truck was doing in the area on a Sunday.
But residents said they saw it picking up garbage, which has been piling up on the street since the recent spate of bad weather.
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