{"id":160802,"date":"2026-03-11T21:51:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T21:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/160802\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T21:51:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T21:51:37","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-cyclist-fatally-struck-by-cement-truck-in-borough-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/160802\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Cyclist fatally struck by cement truck in Borough Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A cyclist was fatally struck by a cement truck in Borough Park, police say.<\/p>\n<p>The 53-year-old man was hit by the truck near 16th Avenue and 49th Street just before 3 p.m. Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The truck, driven by a 68-year-old man, and the cyclist were both traveling southbound on 16th Avenue at the time of the crash, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>EMS took the cyclist to Maimonides Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the 68-year-old driver of the truck stayed at the scene of the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A cyclist was fatally struck by a cement truck in Borough Park, police say. The 53-year-old man was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[7544,98,100,99,33125,8939,194,9,24,63,103,10500],"class_list":["post-160802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-borough-park","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-cyclist","tag-fatal-crash","tag-fdny","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-truck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160802","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=160802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}