Community advocates, city leaders and state legislators joined together on 23rd Ave and Bath Avenue, to speak out about the killing of 11-year-old Amira Aminova. <\/p>\n
The 11-year-old girl was hit and killed by a school bus on Feb. 6, as she crossed the street to get home. <\/p>\n
Her memorial continues to grow. <\/p>\n
Aminova was a student at I.S. 281, just a few blocks away from where she was struck and killed. <\/p>\n
Police say the driver of that school bus, a 62-year-old man, drove away without stopping. He told police he had no idea he hit someone. <\/p>\n
The driver has been charged with failure to yield and to exercise due care. <\/p>\n
Advocates with Safe Streets say this is the 130th child killed since Vision Zero began in NYC in 2014 and the 28th child killed walking to or from school. <\/p>\n
While officials are calling for a new comprehensive traffic study of Bath Avenue, others say that won\u2019t be enough. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Community advocates, city leaders and state legislators joined together on 23rd Ave and Bath Avenue, to speak out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[54176,98,100,99,13497,330,56481,1209,9,24,63,3058,50909,32328,12822],"class_list":["post-131932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-bath-beach","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-bus","tag-bus-crash","tag-bus-incident","tag-buses","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-school-bus","tag-school-bus-crash","tag-vigil","tag-vision-zero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131932","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=131932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}