Two pedestrians fatally struck by recycling truck in Hell’s Kitchen

Two pedestrians were struck and killed while crossing the street early Friday –– raising the death toll to six people in the last three days killed by a car, truck o🌠r bus, according to police.

In the earlier incident, a man –– whose identity was being withheld pending family notification –– was struck and killed by a private recycling truck in Hell’s Kitchen while wal൩king northbound on 10th Avenue at 49th Street around 4:40 a.m. against the traffic signal and outside of the crosswalk when a flat-bed truck driving✤ westbound struck him, police said.

The ไ58-year-old driver, Robert Alford, remained on the scene, cops said.

Alford was arrested and charged with failure to yield to a pedestrian and failur❀e to exercise due care.

The truꦬcker’s company, Classic Recycling, gave no🦹 comment, saying it was not aware of the incident.

Over an hour later, a 57-year-old man was walking westbound across Third Avenue at Seventh Street in Park Slope just after 6 a.m. when a truck, driven by a 76-year-old man, hit him –– follo♋wed by two other passing cars, according to police.

All three drivers remained on the s🌱cene. No ar♊rests have been made, police added.

The pedestrian, Andres Stylianou, 57, was rushed to New York-Presbyt🐠erian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital where he died, police said.

“This is the sixth person fatally struck in the last three days”, Chief of Transportation William T. Morris said in a press conference Friday.

Out of the six incidences, five involved pedestrians and one involved a bicycle.

Of those ജfive, three were struck by a box truck, one was struck by a garbage truck, and one person was struck by a car, according to Chief Morris.

In total, ther💟e have been two arrests made and one summons issued, according to police.