{"id":216759,"date":"2026-05-01T16:15:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T16:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/216759\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T16:15:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T16:15:47","slug":"9-year-old-boy-killed-in-brooklyn-school-bus-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/216759\/","title":{"rendered":"9-year-old boy killed in Brooklyn school bus accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A school bus <a href=\"https:\/\/data.cityofnewyork.us\/Public-Safety\/Motor-Vehicle-Collisions-Crashes\/h9gi-nx95\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">struck and killed<\/a> a 9-year-old boy who was on his way to school in Brooklyn Friday, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The bus was rolling through Williamsburg at about 8:15 a.m. when\u00a0 the 49-year-old driver made a left turn from Lee Ave. onto Lorimer St., cops said. As he turned, he struck the child as he was trying to cross the street.<\/p>\n<p>Medics rushed the child to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nychealthandhospitals.org\/locations\/woodhull\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Woodhull Hospital<\/a>, where the child died. The boy\u2019s name was not immediately released as cops track down relatives.<\/p>\n<p>The driver at first continued driving, but quickly returned after someone waved him down and told him that he had struck someone.<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately disclosed if there were children on the school bus when the accident occurred.<\/p>\n<p>No charges were immediately filed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A school bus struck and killed a 9-year-old boy who was on his way to school in Brooklyn&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216760,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265],"class_list":["post-216759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216759","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=216759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}