{"id":127437,"date":"2026-02-09T11:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T11:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/127437\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T11:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T11:40:07","slug":"news-12-westchester-elmsford-man-accused-of-fatally-hitting-pedestrian-in-the-bronx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/127437\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Westchester | Elmsford man accused of fatally hitting pedestrian in The Bronx"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Westchester man is in police custody after allegedly hitting and killing a pedestrian while driving in The Bronx.<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD says 47-year-old Robert Blakney, of Elmsford, was traveling south on the Major Deegan Expressway Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s when he hit a man who was crossing the highway.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Blakney was taken to the hospital and was later arrested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Westchester man is in police custody after allegedly hitting and killing a pedestrian while driving in The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[90,128,19801,9,24,63,14765,129,131,130,768],"class_list":{"0":"post-127437","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-accident","9":"tag-bronx","10":"tag-major-deegan-expressway","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-pedestrian-struck","15":"tag-the-bronx","16":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","17":"tag-the-bronx-news","18":"tag-westchester"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127437","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=127437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}