A Swedish model is brain dead after getting hit by a bus in Roosevelt Island last week, authorities and relatives said Monday.
Anna Maria Mostrom, 29, was cycling Wednesday on Main St. when a bus making a left turn struck her, causing her to fall and sustain serious brain injuries, police said.
She is listed in critical condition at Weill Cornell Medical Center.
“She was rammed off the bus and the damage was so severe that she is brain dead,” her father, Ronny Mostrom, told a Swedish newspaper. “We can hope for a miracle, but the doctors said there is no realistic chance.”
Family and friends have been keeping vigil at the hospital, where Mostrom had undergone two surgeries, the report said. But doctors call her prognosis “bleak.”
“They are making preparations to donate her organs, which will save a lot of lives,” her good friend Timothy Phillips told the Daily News.
He said Mostrom, who had been working to transition from modeling to other creative endeavors, was pedaling to her home on the island when she swerved into or got bumped by the bus.
The 51-year-old driver remained at the scene following the crash and has not been charged, police said.
He was an operator of the Red Bus Service that circles the island, and was going southbound when he made the fateful turn, a witness said.
Mostrom was a contestant in the Scandinavian version of “Top Model” in 2005, which launched her catwalk career. She has lived in New York City for the past two years.
Her hospital room has been filled with loved ones, her friends said. The walls have been plastered with photos and notes.
“Her family and many of her friends are gathered here with her now and the staff of the hospital say that they have never witnessed such an outpouring of love and affection for anyone before,” Phillips wrote in a Facebook post.
“The light within her is fading but her star shines brighter than ever.”
