Model Anna Maria Mostrom brain dead after bike accident in US

DOZENS of anxious friends and family have gathered at New York Cornell Hospital, where world renowned model Anna Maria Mostrom remains on life support after a tragic accident.

ISCHIA, ITALY - JULY 10: Anna Maria Mostrom and Mark Canton attend day one of the Ischia Global Film and Music Festival on July 10, 2011 in Ischia, Italy. (Photo by Venturelli/Getty Images)

A SWEDISH model is brain dead in a Manhattan hospital after being crushed by a bus while riding a bike without a helmet, police sources and relatives said Monday.

Anna Maria Mostrom, 29, was pedalling home along Main Street on Roosevelt Island last Wednesday when she crashed into the bumper of a bus making a left-hand turn at around 9:18 p.m., police said. The blond beauty suffered a devastating brain injury from the impact with the pavement.

Police sources said that a preliminary investigation showed that the bus driver failed to yield. No charges were filed.

Dozens of anxious friends and family members have gathered at New York Cornell Hospital, where Mostrom remains on life support.

“I’m about to lose my girlfriend,” the model’s 44-year-old devastated boyfriend told The Post at the hospital.

Mostrom’s father, Ronny, said relatives are hoping for a miracle, but doctors aren’t optimistic.

“The damage was so severe that she is brain dead,” he told the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet. “The doctors said there is no realistic chance.”

Two surgeries stopped the bleeding in her brain, but she’s still unable to breathe on her own. The family will donate her organs if she dies, her father said.

Anna Maria Mostrom and Karolina Kurkova. (Photo by Venturelli/Getty Images)

MTV founder Robert Pittman — one of the model’s close friends — called the crash “an absolute tragedy.”

“Loving, beautiful, hardworking, sensitive, community leader. I love and cherish you Anna Maria,” Pittman’s wife, Veronique, wrote alongside a Facebook photo of Mostrom at the Burning Man festival in Nevada.

Loved ones have papered the walls of Mostrom’s hospital room with notes and photos. “The hospital says that they have never witnessed such an outpouring of love and affection for anyone before,” her friend Timothy Phillips wrote on Facebook.

After a stint in Los Angeles, Mostrom moved to New York more than two years ago to continue her catwalk career. Her first big break was as a contestant on “Sweden’s Next Top Model” in 2005.

Since then, she has walked the runway for Oscar de la Renta and Roberto Cavalli, her Twitter account says.

The blue-eyed stunner described herself as “much more than a model” on her LinkedIn profile.

“I have a very creative mind with skills in production and organisation,” she wrote. “Flowers, arrangements, decorations and style created with an eye for perfection, details and beauty is what I am driving towards.”

Pascal Vicedomini and Anna Maria Mostrom. (Photo by Venturelli/WireImage)

This story originally appeared on the New York Post and is republished here with permission.