{"id":217210,"date":"2026-05-01T23:03:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T23:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/217210\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T23:03:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T23:03:16","slug":"9-year-old-boy-fatally-struck-by-school-bus-in-brooklyn-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/217210\/","title":{"rendered":"9-year-old boy fatally struck by school bus in Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A 9-year-old boy was struck and killed by a yellow school bus at a busy Brooklyn intersection Friday morning, according to police.<\/p>\n

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

First responders found the boy unconscious and unresponsive with severe injuries to his head and body.<\/p>\n

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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

The victim, identified by police as Joel Jacobowitz, of Brooklyn, was declared dead at the scene.<\/p>\n

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

Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u00a0said in an X post<\/a>\u00a0he was \u201cdevastated\u201d by the tragic loss.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy heart is with his family and loved ones as they endure this tragic loss,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n

\u201cChildren should be safe walking around our city, and this horrific road death is a painful reminder that we must continue to use every tool available\u00a0to make our streets safe for all New Yorkers.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The boy was crossing the street at Lee Avenue and Lorimer Street in Williamsburg. FOX 5 NY<\/p>\n

\"Sandbags<\/p>\n

Sandbags at the scene where a 9-year-old boy was hit by a bus in Brooklyn. FOX 5 NY<\/p>\n

No charges have been filed at this time.<\/p>\n

Neighbors told The Post the intersection where the tragic incident took place is always bustling and was recently paved, leaving the stretch of pavement without a marked crosswalk.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no crosswalk over here for the kids to identify where to cross so the kid probably missed the spot where to cross so he crossed outside of the vantage point of the bus driver,\u201d father of five Shia Kohn said.<\/p>\n

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First responders found the boy unconscious and unresponsive with severe injuries to his head and body. FOX 5 NY<\/p>\n

\u201cI am a father of kids. It\u2019s terrible seeing it happened. I\u2019m sending my kids off to school every day. You miss a heartbeat every time something like that happens.\u201d<\/p>\n

Robert Santiago, 58, said the crash scene is at a \u201cvery busy corner.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s scary. These are kids,\u201d said Robert Santiago, 58, as he carried his granddaughter on his shoulders.<\/p>\n

\u201cI worry about the children. There is a school nearby.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Onlookers<\/p>\n

Onlookers at the scene of the accident. William Farrington for NY Post<\/p>\n

He said buses drive too fast and zip through red lights.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey need to slow down, Santiago said.<\/p>\n

Councilman Lincoln Restler called on city officials to make immediate safety improvements to the area, calling Jacobowitz\u2019s death an \u201cunimaginable loss.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNo community should have to endure a tragedy like this,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 9-year-old boy was struck and killed by a yellow school bus at a busy Brooklyn intersection Friday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,14675,85628,85627,82329,9,24,63,1424,26067],"class_list":["post-217210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-bus-driver","tag-fox-5-ny","tag-joel-jacobowitz","tag-lorimer-street","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-williamsburg","tag-yellow-school-bus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217210","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=217210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}