No Charges for Driver in Wednesday's Bicycle Accident

No charges will be filed against a driver whose bump with a bicyclist sent him to the hospital on Wednesday afternoon, police said Thursday.

Shortly after 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Ratzmann Konrad, 21, of North Arlington, was thrown from his bicycle after the front right tire of the 43-year-old Belleville woman's car made contact with his front tire as she was making a right turn from Pompton Avenue onto East Bradford Avenue in Cedar Grove

Cedar Grove Police Capt. Richard Vanderstreet said Konrad and the driver of the 2008 BMW sedan were side-by-side as she made her turn, at which point the bicycle "glanced off the vehicle's right front tire," and wound up on the sidewalk, where the man was ejected from the bicycle.

Konrad suffered injuries including a broken collar bone, and abrasions to his knee and hand. He was treated at the scene by the Cedar Grove Ambulance & Rescue Squad and transported to St. Joseph’s Hospital in Paterson, police said.

Police said in a statement Thursday that the investigation subsequent to the accident found that the driver was "determined to have not been at fault."