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Emergency officials respond to a crash on Richmond Terrace in New Brighton.

(Staten Island Advance/Michael Tatar)

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A man was injured when the bicycle he was riding on collided with a car at Richmond Terrace and Lafayette Avenue in New Brighton during the Thursday morning rush hour, according to a witness.

The car, a black BMW, was making a left turn from Richmond Terrace into a Citgo gas station at 700 Richmond Terrace when the sedan crashed with the bicycle at about 7:35 a.m. The cyclist, who was wearing a helmet, landed on the asphalt near the curb on Richmond Terrace. His dented bicycle went down on a driveway for the gas station, a witness told the Advance.

The unconscious patient was taken to Richmond University Medical Center in West Brighton after EMS responded to a call of a pedestrian accident at that location at 7:40 a.m., according to a spokesman for the FDNY/EMS.

Traffic was bumper-to-bumper at that time, so that car likely wasn't going very fast when the sedan appeared to clip the bicycle, the witness said.

-- Advance staffer Michael Tatar contributed to this article.