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Horrifying new video footage captured the moment a beloved 93-year-old great grandmother was struck and killed by a hit-and-run biker on Monday afternoon — and left dying on a Bronx street.
The disturbing clip shows retired nurse Leonara Campbell, a great-grandmother nine, being struck and dragged on the pavement near White Plains Road and East 225th Street about 2:30 p.m., with her cowardly killer then speeding off and leaving her dying.
Another video moments before the tragic collision showed the unknown biker revving the engine to blow past a changing traffic light — about 20 feet where he killed Campbell.
The clip shows the speeding motorcycle zip past the screen in a blur.
“He was speeding up,” one eyewitness told The Post. “He was trying to make the light. About halfway up the hill you could hear [him] speed up. Then he let off as he was coming across.
“Then, ‘boom!'” he said. “He hit her, Just as he was hitting her I turned away and said, ‘Oh my God!”
Campbell was on her way to pick up medications and candy for neighborhood kids — and food for one hungry boy when she was struck down by the reckless biker, her family said.
“Her head was bleeding by the jaw, and her ankle was all messed up, her knee all messed up,” eyewitness Noel Crewe said Tuesday. “We were all standing there for 45 minutes trying to help her, but by the time the ambulance took her she had already passed.”
The unknown killer then glanced back at the battered woman before speeding off on his 2012 Yamaha YZFR1, relatives and authorities said.
“He then stopped,” Campbell’s grandson, Rolando Barrett, told The Post. “He looked at her for a good minute, and then he left. The guy needs to give himself up, because they still haven’t found him yet.
“This is a sudden death that never should have happened,” he added. “And the way she looked when it was over — it doesn’t look good. It doesn’t look good at all.”
Police have launched a manhunt for the biker, while friends and relatives cope with the senseless death.
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