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<\/p>\nA 9-year-old boy was killed Friday morning, after police say he was struck by a yellow school bus. They say it happened shortly before 8:30 a.m. near Lee Avenue and Lorimer Street.<\/p>\n
Community groups identified the child as Yoel Jacobowitz. <\/p>\n
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Sources tell News 12 that the school bus was traveling on Lee Avenue and making a left turn onto Lorimer Street when it hit the child.<\/p>\n
Council Member Lincoln Restler, who was at the scene briefly, said the boy was in the driver\u2019s blind spot and was killed on impact.<\/p>\n
Sources say the driver continued driving and did not realize the child had been struck. <\/p>\n
Authorities later located the driver and brought the bus back to the scene, where the NYPD Highway Patrol Collision Investigation Squad gathered evidence.<\/p>\n
The deadly crash happened in the heart of Williamsburg\u2019s Orthodox Jewish community, which residents say the boy was part of. <\/p>\n
Throughout the morning, members of a special team were seen cleaning blood from the street and the bus in accordance with religious customs.<\/p>\n
After the intersection reopened around noon, NYPD officers were stationed at corners, directing pedestrians and telling people not to cross until they had the right of way.<\/p>\n
The fatal crash comes one week after another child, a 10-year-old boy, was hit and injured by a car a few blocks away at Lee Avenue and Division Avenue.<\/p>\n
Several elected officials, including Mayor Zohran Mamdani, posted messages on social media offering condolences and prayers to the family.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is just a tragedy. I have no words,\u201d Restler said at the scene. \u201cI\u2019m heartbroken for the family, for this whole community in Williamsburg.\u201d<\/p>\n
As of Friday evening, no charges have been announced. The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 9-year-old boy was killed Friday morning, after police say he was struck by a yellow school bus.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-217085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217085","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=217085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}