A 13-year-old boy riding his bicycle was struck and killed by a semi in south suburban Manhattan, Illinois, officials said.<\/p>\n
Manhattan police said Monday evening, around 5:35 p.m., police and emergency response crews were called to the intersection of State and East North streets for a crash involving a bicycle and a semi truck. <\/p>\n
When they arrived, police said they found the 13-year-old unresponsive under the semi-trailer. <\/p>\n
The Will County Coroner’s Office said the boy was pronounced dead at 8:13 p.m. <\/p>\n
The crash is under investigation by Manhattan police and Illinois State Police. Manhattan police released a statement saying in part, “We kindly ask for everyone’s thoughts, compassion and prayers during these extremely difficult times. Especially for the children and the entire Manhattan community.”<\/p>\n
The child has not been identified. An autopsy is pending, the coroner’s office said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 13-year-old boy riding his bicycle was struck and killed by a semi in south suburban Manhattan, Illinois,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[4207,8939,5350,75,84,83,9,24,63,9209],"class_list":{"0":"post-11526","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-children","9":"tag-fatal-crash","10":"tag-illinois","11":"tag-manhattan","12":"tag-manhattan-headlines","13":"tag-manhattan-news","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-semi-truck"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}