{"id":402206,"date":"2025-11-24T22:04:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T22:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/402206\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T22:04:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T22:04:14","slug":"driver-runs-over-man-lying-on-nyc-street-then-leaves-him-to-die-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/402206\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver runs over man lying on NYC street &#8212; then leaves him to die: cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A driver fatally struck a man who was lying in the middle of a Bronx roadway Sunday night before driving off, according to cops.<\/p>\n<p>The fatal car-on-pedestrian crash happened around 10:40 p.m. when the driver traveling southbound on the Grand Concourse near East Burnside Avenue plowed into the unidentified victim, cops said.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37755876\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Bronx_Hit_n_Run_001.jpg\" alt=\"Police investigate a fatal hit and run accident on the Grand Concourse.\" class=\"wp-image-37755876\"  \/>Police investigate a fatal hit and run accident on the Grand Concourse  Robert Mecea<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.4862119;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37755868\" width=\"877\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Bronx_Hit_n_Run_002.jpg\" alt=\"Police investigate an incident on a street at night, with two police officers standing by a silver SUV and a police car in the foreground, next to a Lukoil gas station.\" class=\"wp-image-37755868\"  \/>The man was lying on the roadway. Robert Mecea<\/p>\n<p>The pedestrian, who police said was lying in the roadway, was taken to Saint Barnabas Hospital and pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>The driver fled the scene after running over the victim, the NYPD said. <\/p>\n<p>There are no arrests so far and sources said police are looking for a champagne-colored vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>More information about the car was not immediately available. It\u2019s also unclear if the victim was homeless.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A driver fatally struck a man who was lying in the middle of a Bronx roadway Sunday night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":402207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,5417,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5257,5305,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-402206","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-hit-and-run","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-nypd","18":"tag-the-bronx","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-us-news","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115606944258506578","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402206","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=402206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}