Police say a man was killed by a box truck in a hit-and-run in Brooklyn Heights.<\/p>\n
Nasir Nadim, 59, of Brooklyn, was struck by the freightliner box truck near Cadman Plaza West and Clinton Street around 1 p.m. on Jan. 23. He died a week later, according to authorities.<\/p>\n
Nadim and the box truck were involved in a crash blocks away, near State Street and Clinton Street, when Nadim grabbed onto the truck’s driver\u2019s side door.<\/p>\n
Police say he hung on for about 600 feet as the truck traveled northbound on Cadman Plaza West before he fell onto the road and was hit by the truck.<\/p>\n
Nadim suffered severe injuries, and EMS took him to New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital in critical condition, where he later died.<\/p>\n
Authorities say the truck driver did not remain at the scene of the crash.<\/p>\n
No arrests have been made as of Monday evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say a man was killed by a box truck in a hit-and-run in Brooklyn Heights. Nasir Nadim,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[57527,98,100,6748,99,9189,9,24,63,103],"class_list":["post-135457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-box-truck","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-heights","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-fatal-hit-and-run","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135457","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=135457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}