{"id":159239,"date":"2026-03-10T15:20:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T15:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/159239\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T15:20:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T15:20:05","slug":"nyc-man-dead-after-scooter-hits-pothole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/159239\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Man Dead After Scooter Hits Pothole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>QUEENS, NY \u2014 A 46-year-old man was killed after he hit a pothole and fell off his motorized scooter, striking his head on the ground in Queens Monday night, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened on Liberty Avenue around 9:30 p.m. <\/p>\n<p>The man was riding a stand-up motorized scooter when he struck a pothole and was thrown to the ground, striking his head on impact. <\/p>\n<p>The 46-year-old man was taken to Jamaica Hospital where he was pronounced dead, police said. <\/p>\n<p>According to ABC 7 New York, the pothole has since been refilled after the crash. <\/p>\n<p>Additional details into the crash have been released. The victim has not been identified yet. <\/p>\n<p>An investigation remain ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"QUEENS, NY \u2014 A 46-year-old man was killed after he hit a pothole and fell off his motorized&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-159239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159239","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=159239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}