An out-of-work tennis instructor was mowed down and killed Monday while he was selling bottles of water on the service road of the Whitestone Expressway.
Michael Munoz, 42, was standing on the sidewalk of the service road near 20th Avenue in Queens when an elderly man lost control of his Toyota Camry at around 2:15 p.m. and jumped the curb, cops said.
The victim’s brother said Munoz was a coach for a junior tennis league in The Bronx, but lost his job and was selling water by the highway to make money.
“My brother was a good man,” said Raphael Munoz, 50. “Not a bad bone in his body.”
The victim was rushed to New York Hospital Queens, where he was pronounced dead.
The 78-year-old driver and his passenger were also taken to that hospital and treated for minor injuries.
Police are investigating the accident, but cops said that no criminality suspected.