{"id":217972,"date":"2026-05-03T00:20:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T00:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/217972\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T00:20:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T00:20:30","slug":"cops-identify-9-year-old-boy-fatally-struck-by-school-bus-in-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/217972\/","title":{"rendered":"Cops identify 9-year-old boy fatally struck by school bus in Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police have identified the 9-year-old Brooklyn boy who was struck and killed by a school bus driver<\/a> Friday morning while he was on his way to school.<\/p>\n

Little Joel Jacobowitz was five blocks from his home in Williamsburg and trying to cross the street when he was hit by the 49-year-old bus driver as he was turning left from Lee Ave. onto Lorimer St., cops said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am devastated by the loss of a 9-year-old boy struck this morning while crossing the street in Williamsburg,\u201d Mayor Mamdani said Friday on X<\/a>. \u201cMy heart is with his family and loved ones as they endure this tragic loss.\u201d<\/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 to make our streets safe for all New Yorkers,\u201d the mayor added.<\/p>\n

Medics rushed the child to Woodhull Hospital, where he died. 1010 WINS<\/a> reported he was buried in New Jersey.<\/p>\n

The driver initially continued driving, but quickly returned to the scene after somebody flagged him down and told him he had struck someone.<\/p>\n

It was not immediately disclosed if there were children on the school bus when the accident occurred. No charges were immediately filed as police were still investigating the incident.<\/p>\n

A local resident noted that the intersection\u2019s redesign shifted the crossing area roughly 15 feet away from where it previously had been.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey moved the crosswalk. That\u2019s why the kid was in that section. He was used to crossing there,\u201d said Shia Kohn, 41, a father of five. \u201cThere\u2019s no crosswalk over there to identify. It would\u2019ve helped if he had the markings in the street.\u201d<\/p>\n

Councilman Lincoln Restler (D-Brooklyn), who represents parts of Williamsburg, said the busy, five-way intersection where the child was killed was recently under construction and had no painted crosswalks or street markings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have identified the 9-year-old Brooklyn boy who was struck and killed by a school bus driver Friday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217973,"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-217972","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\/217972","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=217972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}