{"id":199599,"date":"2026-04-16T17:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T17:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/199599\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T17:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T17:16:07","slug":"man-74-fatally-struck-by-two-cars-crossing-manhattans-fdr-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/199599\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 74, fatally struck by two cars crossing Manhattan&#8217;s FDR Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 74-year-old man died after he was struck by two drivers as he tried to cross Manhattan\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2025\/11\/27\/man-seen-lying-fdr-drive-east-harlem-fatally-struck-by-two-cars\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FDR Drive<\/a>, police said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Derek Coker was crossing near the E. Houston St. exit in the East Village when he was struck in the northbound left lane by a black Chevrolet sedan operated by a 55-year-old man about 8:40 p.m. Wednesday, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was thrown into the center lane, where he was struck by a silver Mitsubishi driven by a 55-year-old woman.<\/p>\n<p>Medics rushed Coker to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nychealthandhospitals.org\/locations\/bellevue\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bellevue Hospital<\/a> but he could not be saved. The victim lived in Queens, according to cops.<\/p>\n<p>Surveillance video recovered by cops shows Coker climbing over a divider before trying to cross the highway, a police source said<\/p>\n<p>The two drivers remained at the scene and faced no immediate charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 74-year-old man died after he was struck by two drivers as he tried to cross Manhattan\u2019s FDR&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,75,84,83,9,24,264,12,63,261,265],"class_list":{"0":"post-199599","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-city","9":"tag-county","10":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","11":"tag-latest-headlines","12":"tag-local-news","13":"tag-manhattan","14":"tag-manhattan-headlines","15":"tag-manhattan-news","16":"tag-new-york","17":"tag-new-york-city","18":"tag-new-york-county","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-nyc","21":"tag-nyc-crime","22":"tag-sub-county-region"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199599","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=199599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}