{"id":216850,"date":"2026-05-01T17:27:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T17:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/216850\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T17:27:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T17:27:47","slug":"9-year-old-child-fatally-struck-by-school-bus-in-brooklyn-nypd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/216850\/","title":{"rendered":"9-year-old child fatally struck by school bus in Brooklyn: NYPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"779\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-01-at-12.47.08-PM.jpg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"A 9-year-old boy was fatally hit by a bus in Williamsburg on Friday morning.\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   title=\"9-year-old child fatally struck by school bus in Brooklyn: NYPD 1\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A 9-year-old boy was fatally hit by a bus in Williamsburg on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Screenshot via Citizen<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>A 9-year-old boy was fatally hit by a school bus while crossing the street in Williamsburg on Friday morning.\n<\/p>\n<p>According to police, at 8:18 a.m. on May 1, police responded to a call regarding a pedestrian struck at Lee Avenue and Lorimer Street. Upon their arrival, officers found that the child had been hit by a school bus and sustained head trauma.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was rushed to Maimonides Medical Center, where police told amNewYork he was pronounced dead. The victim\u2019s identity is being withheld pending family notification.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\/news\/crime\/child-killed-by-bus-driver-in-brooklyn-fdny\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Pix11<\/a> reported that the bus driver was turning left onto Lorimer Street when he hit the child. The driver initially kept going, but returned to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made at this time. The investigation is ongoing.\n<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Check back for more details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 9-year-old boy was fatally hit by a bus in Williamsburg on Friday morning. Screenshot via Citizen &#13;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[10568,98,100,99,13497,27068,9,24,63,103,1424],"class_list":["post-216850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-90th-precinct","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-bus","tag-dcpi","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-williamsburg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216850","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=216850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}