A woman was killed and a man was hospitalized with injuries after a car jumped a curb in the Bronx and plowed into the bench the two were sitting on, according to police.<\/p>\n
A 55-year-old man was driving north on Bartow Avenue in Co-op City just after 1:30 p.m. Tuesday when he had a medical episode behind the wheel, police said. The vehicle, a 2018 Mazda CX5, jumped the curb and struck two people who were sitting on a bench near Co-op City Boulevard.<\/p>\n
The 72-year-old woman who was struck suffered injuries to her head and body, police said. She was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n
The 36-year-old man sitting on the bench alongside her was conscious and alert after the incident. He was taken to Jacobi Hospital, and is expected to recover.<\/p>\n
It was not immediately clear what condition the driver behind the wheel of the vehicle was in, though he was taken to the hospital as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman was killed and a man was hospitalized with injuries after a car jumped a curb in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-205808","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-nyc","12":"tag-the-bronx","13":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","14":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205808","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=205808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}