A 66-year-old Stamford resident was critically injured after being struck by a vehicle Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Police say it happened at approximately 2:04 p.m. in the area of Strawberry Hill Avenue and Colonial Road.<\/p>\n
According to investigators, a 2014 Toyota pickup truck driven by a 50-year-old Stamford resident was traveling southbound on Strawberry Hill Avenue when they made a left turn eastbound on Colonial Road and struck the victim who was attempting to cross.<\/p>\n
The pedestrian suffered a life-threatening injury. EMS transported the victim to Stamford Hospital in critical condition.<\/p>\n
The driver of the pickup truck remained at the scene and cooperated with responding officers.<\/p>\n
The driver was issued an infraction ticket for failure to yield the right of way to a pedestrian in a crosswalk.<\/p>\n
No additional charges had been filed as of Saturday evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 66-year-old Stamford resident was critically injured after being struck by a vehicle Saturday afternoon. Police say it…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-209821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209821","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=209821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}