A 9-year-old boy was struck and killed by a school bus in Brooklyn Friday morning, the NYPD said.<\/p>\n
Police said they responded to Lee Avenue and Lorimer Street in South Williamsburg just before 8:20 a.m.<\/p>\n
Officers found the boy there unconscious and unresponsive, with head and body injuries, according to police.<\/p>\n
Emergency responders pronounced him dead at the scene.<\/p>\n
A preliminary investigation found that a yellow school bus was turning left onto Lorimer Street from the avenue when it hit the boy as he was crossing the street, police said.<\/p>\n
The school bus operator initially left the scene before returning, the NYPD said.<\/p>\n
Police didn\u2019t immediately release the boy\u2019s name. Their investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 9-year-old boy was struck and killed by a school bus in Brooklyn Friday morning, the NYPD said.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[387,25,98,100,99,9,24,12,63,308,73913,27],"class_list":["post-216705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-app-public-safety","tag-app-top-stories","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-public-safety","tag-sarah-ng","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216705","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=216705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}