{"id":189385,"date":"2026-04-08T10:12:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T10:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/189385\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T10:12:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T10:12:36","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-driver-on-the-run-after-hitting-11-year-old-pedestrian-in-sheepshead-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/189385\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Driver on the run after hitting 11-year-old pedestrian in Sheepshead Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A driver is on the run after hitting an 11-year-old girl crossing the street in Sheepshead Bay back in March.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the incident happened on March 19 at around 4 p.m. on Emmons Avenue between Bragg Street and Brigham Street. A man driving a dark-colored BMW struck the girl as she crossed the street. She fell to the ground and sustained bruises and lacerations to her knees. EMS took her to NYC Health + Hospitals\/South Brooklyn Health, and she is expected to recover.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the driver of the BMW drove off on Emmons Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to call NYPD&#8217;s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A driver is on the run after hitting an 11-year-old girl crossing the street in Sheepshead Bay back&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,473,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-189385","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-hit-and-run","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189385","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=189385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}