{"id":205266,"date":"2026-04-21T21:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T21:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/205266\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T21:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T21:46:08","slug":"1-dead-1-hurt-after-driver-strikes-pedestrians-in-the-bronx-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/205266\/","title":{"rendered":"1 dead, 1 hurt after driver strikes pedestrians in the Bronx, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One person is dead and another injured after a driver struck pedestrians in the Bronx on Tuesday, police said.<\/p>\n<p>It happened at Bartow Avenue and Co-Op City Boulevard just after 1:30 p.m.  <\/p>\n<p>According to the NYPD, the driver, a 55-year-old man, experienced a medical episode and crashed into a bench, where two people were sitting.<\/p>\n<p>One victim, a 72-year-old woman, was pronounced dead at the scene. Her identity has not yet been released.<\/p>\n<p>The second victim, a 36-year-old man, was taken to a local hospital with unknown injuries.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/co-op-city-pedestrians-wcbshkk0-hi-res-still.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"Smashed bench \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  A woman was killed and a man was injured after a driver suffered a medical episode and crashed into a bench in the Bronx on April 21, 2026, police said.<\/p>\n<p>                CBS News New York<\/p>\n<p>The driver&#8217;s condition is also unknown.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses said they heard the loud bang from impact and rushed over to see the woman pinned underneath the car.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It wasn&#8217;t a pretty sight to see, you know. Nobody wants to just walk down the street, and then you just see someone getting struck by a car, you know, losing their life, so it&#8217;s a lot. It&#8217;s a lot,&#8221; one witness said.<\/p>\n<p>That witness said many people tried to help the woman, but it was too late.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made at this time, and the investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Stay with CBS News New York for the latest on this developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person is dead and another injured after a driver struck pedestrians in the Bronx on Tuesday, police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-205266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205266","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=205266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}