{"id":117603,"date":"2025-08-04T07:17:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T07:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/117603\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T07:17:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T07:17:20","slug":"cops-looking-for-driver-who-fatally-struck-man-on-brooklyn-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/117603\/","title":{"rendered":"Cops looking for driver who fatally struck man on Brooklyn street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A driver struck and killed a 47-year-old pedestrian crossing a Brooklyn street, then left the scene, police said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened around 3:45 a.m. on Saturday at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Broadway+%26+Suydam+St,+Brooklyn,+NY+11221\/@40.6964842,-73.9319718,15z\/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x89c25c090f8d1b9b:0xd1b0bdf8d050a411!8m2!3d40.6953733!4d-73.9323726!16s%2Fg%2F11gdvc0fzv?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDczMC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Broadway and Suydam St.,<\/a> on the Bedford-Stuyvesant-Bushwick border, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>Police found the man dead at the scene, then determined that an unknown vehicle struck him while heading north on Broadway.<\/p>\n<p>Early reports suggest the vehicle might have been a garbage truck, cops sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Police were still looking for the driver Sunday, and have not yet released the victim\u2019s name pending family notification.<\/p>\n<p><strong>With Thomas Tracy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Originally Published: August 3, 2025 at 3:11 PM EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A driver struck and killed a 47-year-old pedestrian crossing a Brooklyn street, then left the scene, police said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":117604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,1121,2451,3059,5295,1370,728,405,403,5294,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,5293,5321,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-117603","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-city","11":"tag-county","12":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","13":"tag-latest-headlines","14":"tag-local-news","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-new-york-county","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-newyork","20":"tag-newyorkcity","21":"tag-ny","22":"tag-nyc","23":"tag-nyc-crime","24":"tag-sub-county-region","25":"tag-united-states","26":"tag-united-states-of-america","27":"tag-unitedstates","28":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","29":"tag-us","30":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114969277134630402","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}