{"id":216633,"date":"2026-05-01T14:02:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T14:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/216633\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T14:02:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T14:02:21","slug":"child-struck-and-killed-by-school-bus-in-williamsburg-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/216633\/","title":{"rendered":"Child struck and killed by school bus in Williamsburg, Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A child was struck and killed by a school bus in Brooklyn Friday morning, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It happened at Lee and Lorimer Streets in Williamsburg just before 8:20 a.m., according to police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police say the child was just 9 years old.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/chopper-9am3-hi-res-still-09-36-2111-1.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"chopper-9am3-hi-res-still-09-36-2111-1.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Police on the scene after a child was fatally struck by a school bus in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on May 1, 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                CBS News New York<\/p>\n<p>Video from the scene shows the intersection has been taped off as police investigate.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no word yet on the circumstances leading up to the incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Check back soon for more on this developing story.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A child was struck and killed by a school bus in Brooklyn Friday morning, police said.\u00a0 It happened&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63,1424],"class_list":["post-216633","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","tag-williamsburg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216633","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=216633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}