{"id":83633,"date":"2026-05-16T02:52:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T02:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/83633\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T02:52:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T02:52:57","slug":"2-people-killedl-after-driver-loses-control-nypd-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/83633\/","title":{"rendered":"2 people killedl after driver loses control, NYPD says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people were killed and three others seriously injured after a driver lost control\u00a0 of his vehicle and struck a group of pedestrians on the Upper West Side Friday evening, according to police officials.<\/p>\n<p>It happened around 6 p.m. on West 109th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, police said.<\/p>\n<p>According to officials, a 61-year-old man was behind the wheel and taken into custody. Sources told NY1 it appeared he was intoxicated.<\/p>\n<p>Five pedestrians were taken to a nearby hospital, police said. A 35-year-old man and a 46-year-old man were pronounced dead. A 36-year-old man, a 51-year-old man and a 44-year-old remain in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>According police, Amsterdam Avenue between 106th and 110th streets are blocked off as officials continue their investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people were killed and three others seriously injured after a driver lost control\u00a0 of his vehicle and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[101],"tags":[199,9321,15604,44522,13660,200,14869,38,9325,2508,44521],"class_list":["post-83633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-amsterdam","tag-amsterdam","tag-app-public-safety","tag-app-top-stories","tag-deanna-garcia","tag-manhattan","tag-netherlands","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-public-safety","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116581997311392105","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}