{"id":223093,"date":"2026-05-07T11:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T11:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/223093\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T11:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T11:41:07","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-person-seriously-injured-after-being-struck-in-borough-park-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/223093\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Person Seriously Injured After Being Struck In Borough Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A person was seriously hurt overnight along a busy stretch of 8th Avenue in Sunset Park, and investigators are still trying to figure out exactly what happened.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Emergency crews responded just before 9 p.m. near 43rd and 44th streets after reports that a pedestrian had been struck.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Video from the scene showed police blocking part of 8th Avenue as crews worked in the area.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Officials say one person was taken to Maimonides Medical Center with serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Right now, investigators have not said what struck the person or what may have led up to the incident. The person\u2019s age and condition have also not been released.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">According to Vision Zero data, more than 700 pedestrians have been injured across Brooklyn this year as of the end of March.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">News 12 is working to learn more about what happened and whether any surveillance video in the area may help investigators piece together the moments leading up to the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A person was seriously hurt overnight along a busy stretch of 8th Avenue in Sunset Park, and investigators&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-223093","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\/223093","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=223093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}