The 27-year-old victim was alert and conscious but complained of difficulty breathing after being struck while working at a home on Knickerbocker Road, between Hardenburgh and Madison avenues shortly before 3 p.m. June 16, Demarest Police Chief Anthony Dimitriadis said.
He also had a "burning feeling: in his extremities, an emergency medical worker said.
Responding officers learned that the victim had already been taken from the scene in a private vehicle, presumably to Englewood Hospital and Medical Center.
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