{"id":155035,"date":"2026-03-06T05:31:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T05:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/155035\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T05:31:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T05:31:49","slug":"4-year-old-boy-in-brooklyn-struck-dead-by-suv-driver-in-hit-and-run-crash-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/155035\/","title":{"rendered":"4-year-old boy in Brooklyn struck dead by SUV driver in hit-and-run crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1772775109_294_Photo-Mar-05-2026-2-51-15-PM.jpg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"intersection in Brooklyn where child was fatally struck by suv driver in hit-and-run\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   title=\"4-year-old boy in Brooklyn struck dead by SUV driver in hit-and-run crash 1\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A four-year-old boy was fatally struck by an SUV driver at a busy Brooklyn intersection in an apparent hit-and-run on Thursday afternoon, police reported.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Lloyd Mitchell <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>A four-year-old boy was fatally struck by an SUV driver at a busy <a href=\"https:\/\/amny.com\/brooklyn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Brooklyn<\/a> intersection in an apparent hit-and-run on Thursday afternoon, police reported.\n<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement sources said the deadly collision occurred at the corner of Linden Boulevard and Rockaway Avenue in Brownsville, within the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypd73pct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">73rd Precinct\u2019<\/a>s confines, at about 11:10 a.m. on March 5.<\/p>\n<p>Sources close to the investigation said the child was with his parents when he suddenly bolted from them and ran into the rain-slicked intersection.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>Cops said the child was subsequently struck by the driver of a white Ford Explorer SUV, who did not stop and fled the scene.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-137835579\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1772775109_101_Screenshot-2026-03-05-at-2.05.59-PM.jpg\" alt=\"intersection in Brooklyn where child was fatally struck by suv driver in hit-and-run\" width=\"1200\" height=\"721\" title=\"4-year-old boy in Brooklyn struck dead by SUV driver in hit-and-run crash 2\"  \/>Law enforcement sources said the deadly collision occurred at the corner of Linden Boulevard and Rockaway Avenue in Brownsville, within the 73rd Precinct\u2019s confines, just before 1:20 p.m. on March 5.Photo via Google Maps\n<\/p>\n<p>Police sources said the parents rushed their severely injured son to Brookdale University Hospital, located just a short distance from the site of the collision. Despite all efforts, he could not be saved; police have not yet released his identity.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So far, no arrests have been made, and police are still searching for the hit-and-run driver in question.\n<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story; check with amNY.com later for further updates.\n<\/p>\n<p>This story was updated to reflect a time change based on new information provided by police.<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A four-year-old boy was fatally struck by an SUV driver at a busy Brooklyn intersection in an apparent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[25338,33228,98,100,64006,99,4673,54413,64007,9395,37157,64008,9,24,54,63,791,64009,613,33231,64010,64011],"class_list":["post-155035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-73rd-precinct","tag-brookdale-university-hospital","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-hit-and-run","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-brownsville-brooklyn","tag-child-fatality","tag-child-pedestrian-death","tag-developing-story","tag-ford-explorer","tag-linden-boulevard","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-nyc","tag-nypd-investigation","tag-pedestrian-accident","tag-pm-newsletter","tag-rockaway-avenue","tag-suv-driver","tag-traffic-fatality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155035","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=155035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}