{"id":199265,"date":"2026-04-16T13:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/199265\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T13:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T13:00:10","slug":"74-year-old-man-struck-and-killed-on-fdr-drive-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/199265\/","title":{"rendered":"74-year-old man struck and killed on FDR Drive, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"2zp07\">A 74-year-old man died after he was struck by two drivers while walking across Manhattan\u2019s FDR Drive on Wednesday night, police said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"eqlqp\">NYPD officials said Derek Coker was crossing the highway from west to east near the East Houston Street exit near the Lower East Side around 8:45 p.m. Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"57rdf\">Coker was hit in the left northbound lane by the driver of a 2025 black Chevrolet SUV, and was then hit in the middle lane by the driver of a 2024 silver Mitsubishi sedan, according to police.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"3mmc8\">Officials said the 55-year-old man driving the Chevrolet and 55-year-old woman driving the Mitsubishi both stayed at the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"2ua04\">First responders took Coker to Bellevue Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"d525b\">Police did not make any immediate arrests in the case.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"1ep0j\">Officials said they are investigating why Coker was crossing the FDR Drive. His last known address was in Jamaica, Queens, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"cmgqt\">This story is based on preliminary information from police and may be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 74-year-old man died after he was struck by two drivers while walking across Manhattan\u2019s FDR Drive on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-199265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199265","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=199265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}