NEW YORK — An 11-year-old boy was clinging to life Saturday after he was struck and then dragged by an unlicensed Mister Softee ice cream truck driver while riding his new bike down the block from his Brooklyn home, police and witnesses said.
Bleeding from his head and struggling to breathe through his collapsed lungs, little Tyson Anderson turned to a gathering crowd at the crash site at Sutter Avenue and Hendrix Street in East New York with imploring eyes Friday evening, wondering if he was going to see another day.
“He said ‘Am I gonna die? Am I gonna die?’” witness Brian Franklin, 65, told the Daily News Saturday. Tyson managed to give Franklin his address, but the panicked child couldn’t remember his phone number.
