{"id":216716,"date":"2026-05-01T15:24:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T15:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/216716\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T15:24:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T15:24:44","slug":"9-year-old-boy-fatally-struck-by-school-bus-in-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/216716\/","title":{"rendered":"9-year-old boy fatally struck by school bus in Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 9-year-old boy was struck and killed by a yellow school bus in Brooklyn Friday morning, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>The boy was crossing the street at Lee Avenue and Lorimer Street in Williamsburg when he was hit by the bus around 8:20 a.m., police said.<\/p>\n<p>A 9-year-old boy was struck and killed by a yellow school bus in Brooklyn Friday morning, according to police. FOX 5 NY<\/p>\n<p>The boy was crossing the street at Lee Avenue and Lorimer Street in Williamsburg. FOX 5 NY<\/p>\n<p>Sandbags at the scene where a 9-year-old boy was hit by a bus in Brooklyn. FOX 5 NY<\/p>\n<p>First responders found the boy unconscious and unresponsive with severe injuries to his head and body.<\/p>\n<p>He was declared dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The bus driver, a 49-year-old man, initially fled but returned once he realized he\u2019d hit someone, sources told The Post.<\/p>\n<p>First responders found the boy unconscious and unresponsive with severe injuries to his head and body. FOX 5 NY<\/p>\n<p>No charges have been filed at this time.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 9-year-old boy was struck and killed by a yellow school bus in Brooklyn Friday morning, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,11646,57,9,24,63,58],"class_list":["post-216716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-bus-accidents","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216716","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=216716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}