{"id":159955,"date":"2026-03-11T02:17:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T02:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/159955\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T02:17:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T02:17:38","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-access-a-ride-passenger-dead-at-least-10-others-hospitalized-after-crash-in-gravesend-involving-fire-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/159955\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Access-A-Ride passenger dead, at least 10 others hospitalized after crash in Gravesend involving fire truck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 78-year-old Access-A-Ride passenger is dead and at least ten others are recovering at local hospitals after a crash in Gravesend involving a fire truck, police say.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency personnel responded to West 11th Street and Avenue S just before 6:45 p.m. Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say the fire truck was traveling eastbound on Avenue S when it struck a commercial van traveling northbound on West 11th Street. The van then hit an Access-a-Ride bus and the bus struck a Lexus.<\/p>\n<p>EMS transported five firefighters, the operator of the commercial van and four Access-A-Ride passengers, including the 78-year-old, to local hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>The 78-year-old man was pronounced dead at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>His identity has not been released as of Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 78-year-old Access-A-Ride passenger is dead and at least ten others are recovering at local hospitals after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,2227,8939,194,65907,474,9,24,63,103],"class_list":["post-159955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-car-crash","tag-fatal-crash","tag-fdny","tag-firetruck","tag-gravesend","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\/159955","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=159955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}