{"id":218603,"date":"2026-05-03T23:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T23:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/218603\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T23:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T23:26:10","slug":"hit-run-truck-strikes-nyc-pedestrian-leaving-helpless-victim-to-be-finished-off-by-passing-suv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/218603\/","title":{"rendered":"Hit-run truck strikes NYC pedestrian &#8212; leaving helpless victim to be finished off by passing SUV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A truck struck a 40-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/03\/26\/us-news\/ford-mustang-driver-who-allegedly-hit-6-pedestrians-in-wild-caught-on-video-nyc-crash-charged-with-attempted-murder-cops\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bronx pedestrian<\/a> before fleeing Friday night \u2014 leaving the helpless victim in the street, where he was fatally finished off by a passing SUV, police said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>A crutch and bloodstains could be seen in the middle of the roadway at East 138th Street and Bruckner Boulevard after the 7:30 p.m. horror.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.33333333;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39271384\" width=\"787\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/138-street-bruckner-boulevard-bronx-126919984.jpg\" alt=\"Police officers at the scene of a fatal hit and run on East 138th Street and Bruckner Boulevard in the Bronx.\" class=\"wp-image-39271384\"  \/>An SUV fatally hit a Bronx pedestrian after the victim was sent to the pavement by a truck, police said.  Peter Gerber<\/p>\n<p>The victim had been crossing the road outside its marked crosswalk when the truck slammed into him, sending him to the pavement, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>A 61-year-old driver in a 2015 Hondo CR-V was heading in the same direction as the truck and had no time to stop before striking the man on the ground.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.33333333;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39271385\" width=\"787\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/138-street-bruckner-boulevard-bronx-126920012.jpg\" alt=\"A single crutch, purple gloves, and bloodstains on a crosswalk, with a car tire in the background, indicating a hit-and-run incident.\" class=\"wp-image-39271385\"  \/>A crutch, purple gloves and blood remain the roadway after the horror.  Peter Gerber<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics rushed to the scene after a 911 call was placed and raced the victim to Lincoln Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made at this point, and the investigation remains ongoing, officials said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A truck struck a 40-year-old Bronx pedestrian before fleeing Friday night \u2014 leaving the helpless victim in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[254,473,57,9,56,63,65,64,129,16733,58],"class_list":["post-218603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-car-crashes","tag-hit-and-run","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-the-bronx","tag-trucks","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218603","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=218603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}