{"id":159949,"date":"2026-03-11T02:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T02:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/159949\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T02:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T02:07:11","slug":"woman-struck-and-killed-by-dot-dump-truck-on-nyc-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/159949\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman Struck And Killed By DOT Dump Truck On NYC Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK CITY \u2014 A woman was struck and killed by a New York City Department of Transportation dump truck on Tuesday, police said. <\/p>\n<p>The incident happened on Metropolitan Avenue and Lefferts Boulevard in Queens around 9 a.m. <\/p>\n<p>The woman was crossing the street at Lefferts Blvd. when she was struck by the dump truck who was making a right turn onto the street, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The woman was pronounced dead at the scene. She is believed to be in her 30s, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/03\/10\/woman-fatally-struck-in-queens-by-nyc-transportation-department-dump-truck\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Daily News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The victim has not been identified yet. The truck driver remained at the scene. <\/p>\n<p>No charges have been filed. Additional details have not been released. <\/p>\n<p>An investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK CITY \u2014 A woman was struck and killed by a New York City Department of Transportation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":{"0":"post-159949","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-ny","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-nyc-headlines","12":"tag-nyc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159949","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=159949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}