Soundview residents say they are heartbroken, but not surprised, after a man was killed in a hit-an-run crash at the dangerous intersection of White Plains Road and Bruckner Boulevard. <\/p>\n
The incident happened early Saturday at around 5:30 a.m.<\/p>\n
Police told News 12 when they arrived at the scene, they found an unidentified man with severe trauma to his head and body.<\/p>\n
The victim was taken to Jacobi Hospital where he was pronounced dead. <\/p>\n
Sources said the vehicle that struck the man fled the scene and went westbound on Bruckner Boulevard. <\/p>\n
Community members were heartbroken to hear about the deadly event, but not surprised.<\/p>\n
“I look at the cars and I can kind of tell if they’re about to just try to speed past or if they’re going to not hit me. You kind of got to gauge it a little bit,” said one neighbor named Jordan. <\/p>\n
A father and son, Fidel and Leonardo, crossing the street said they have come close to an accident with cars that have ran past the red lights.<\/p>\n
“They really don’t think about pedestrians most of the time, which is sad, but, you know, they should slow down for us,” Fidel said.<\/p>\n
Drivers in the area also told News 12 they have seen the risks first-hand. <\/p>\n
“People try to speed by accidents and it’s dangerous,” said one driver named Alex.<\/p>\n
Detectives had not shared as of Saturday evening the make or model of the vehicle that they are searching for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Soundview residents say they are heartbroken, but not surprised, after a man was killed in a hit-an-run crash…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9189,9,24,63,5928,14765,2466,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-185709","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-fatal-hit-and-run","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-pedestrian","14":"tag-pedestrian-struck","15":"tag-soundview","16":"tag-the-bronx","17":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","18":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185709","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=185709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}