{"id":216738,"date":"2026-05-01T15:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T15:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/216738\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T15:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T15:48:08","slug":"school-bus-crash-today-boy-9-fatally-struck-by-bus-near-lee-avenue-and-lorimer-street-in-williamsburg-brooklyn-new-york-city-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/216738\/","title":{"rendered":"School bus crash today: Boy, 9, fatally struck by bus near Lee Avenue and Lorimer Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ByEyewitness News  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"WABC logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/origin-wabc.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Friday, May 1, 2026 3:18PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"ABC7 Chicago 24\/7 Stream\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">NEW YORK &#8212; A 9-year-old boy was fatally struck by a private school bus in New York City on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The bus was making a left turn from Lee Avenue to Lorimer Street in Brooklyn&#8217;s Williamsburg neighborhood just after 8:15 a.m. local time when it struck the boy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">He was pronounced dead at scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The operator of the bus initially left the scene but returned. He apparently didn&#8217;t realize he had struck the boy.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WABC-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ByEyewitness News Friday, May 1, 2026 3:18PM NEW YORK &#8212; A 9-year-old boy was fatally struck by a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[85395,4584,17895,9,24,55,54,10,56,64,3058,46432,85394,50909,55402,1424],"class_list":["post-216738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-85395","tag-brooklyn-new-york","tag-brooklyn-ny","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-new-york-news","tag-ny","tag-nyc-news","tag-school-bus","tag-school-bus-accident","tag-school-bus-accident-today","tag-school-bus-crash","tag-school-bus-driver","tag-williamsburg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216738","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=216738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}