Updated October 23, 2026 You're riding in the bike lane on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx when a City sanitation truck makes a right turn across your path at East 167th Street. The driver never sees you. You wake up at Lincoln Hospital with a shattered T10 vertebra, and the doctors tell you that you'll never walk again. Your family is focused on surgery, rehab, and survival, as they should be. But under New York law, a clock started running the moment that truck hit you, an