{"id":185717,"date":"2026-04-04T21:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T21:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/185717\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T21:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T21:53:08","slug":"man-killed-crossing-bronx-highway-in-early-morning-hit-and-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/185717\/","title":{"rendered":"Man killed crossing Bronx highway in early-morning hit-and-run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An unidentified man was <a href=\"https:\/\/data.cityofnewyork.us\/Public-Safety\/Motor-Vehicle-Collisions-Crashes\/h9gi-nx95\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">killed as he tried to cross a major Bronx highway<\/a> early Saturday, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was crossing the westbound lanes of the Bruckner Expressway near the White Plains Road exit in Soundview around 5:30 a.m. when he was struck by an unidentified vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Cops called to the scene found the victim crumpled on the roadway, unconscious and with severe injuries to his head and body.<\/p>\n<p>EMS rushed him to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nychealthandhospitals.org\/locations\/jacobi\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jacobi Hospital<\/a>, where he died.<\/p>\n<p>Cops were trying to identify the victim Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The driver who hit him didn\u2019t remain at the scene, cops said. No arrests have been made.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"The NYPD Highway Patrol investigates after an unidentified man was killed as he tried to cross a the Bruckner Expressway in the Bronx early Saturday. \" width=\"9504\" height=\"308\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/TNY-P32-20260404-074157.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"8766025\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD Highway Patrol investigates after an unidentified man was killed as he tried to cross the Bruckner Expressway in the Bronx early Saturday. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"An unknown unidentified adult male, who was found lying in the westbound lanes of the Bruckner Expressway near Castle Hill Avenue with severe head and body trauma, was pronounced dead at Jacobi Hospital, with the unknown striking vehicle fleeing the scene in the Bronx on Saturday April 4, 2026. 0728. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)\" width=\"6209\" height=\"308\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/TNY-P20-20260404-073718.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"8766004\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD Highway Patrol investigates after an unidentified man was killed as he tried to cross the Bruckner Expressway in the Bronx early Saturday. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An unidentified man was killed as he tried to cross a major Bronx highway early Saturday, police said.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-185717","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-city","10":"tag-county","11":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","12":"tag-latest-headlines","13":"tag-local-news","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-new-york-county","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-nyc-crime","20":"tag-sub-county-region","21":"tag-the-bronx","22":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","23":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185717","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=185717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}