{"id":225125,"date":"2026-05-08T21:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T21:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/225125\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T21:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T21:40:08","slug":"boy-13-struck-critically-injured-by-driver-while-crossing-brooklyn-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/225125\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy, 13, struck, critically injured by driver while crossing Brooklyn street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 13-year-old boy crossing a Brooklyn street was struck by a driver, leaving him with serious head injuries Friday morning, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The teen is in critical condition at <a href=\"https:\/\/maimo.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maimonides Medical Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 55-year-old driver stayed at the scene of the collision in Borough Park. He was not immediately charged or summonsed but police are still investigating the incident.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"A 13-year-old boy suffered serious head injuries when he was struck by a blue Nissan Versa that was driving southbound on 15th Ave. at 38th St. in Brooklyn on Friday, May 8, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)\" width=\"9504\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/TNY-P18-20260508-104740.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9065789\" \/>A 13-year-old boy suffered serious head injuries when he was struck by a blue Nissan Versa that was driving southbound on 15th Ave. at 38th St. in Brooklyn on Friday, May 8, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n<p>Police said the man was driving his Nissan Versa south on 15th Ave. when he struck the boy at 38th St. just after 8 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The impact left a large dent on the hood of the car.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"A 13-year-old boy suffered serious head injuries when he was struck by a blue Nissan Versa that was driving southbound on 15th Ave. at 38th St. in Brooklyn on Friday, May 8, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)\" width=\"4083\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/TNY-P9-20260508-104259.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9065780\" \/>A 13-year-old boy suffered serious head injuries when he was struck by a blue Nissan Versa that was driving southbound on 15th Ave. at 38th St. in Brooklyn on Friday, May 8, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"A 13-year-old boy suffered serious head injuries when he was struck by a blue Nissan Versa that was driving southbound on 15th Ave. at 38th St. in Brooklyn on Friday, May 8, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)\" width=\"6000\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/TNY-P25-20260508-105008.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9065793\" \/>A 13-year-old boy suffered serious head injuries when he was struck by a blue Nissan Versa that was driving southbound on 15th Ave. at 38th St. in Brooklyn on Friday, May 8, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"A 13-year-old boy suffered serious head injuries when he was struck by a blue Nissan Versa that was driving southbound on 15th Ave. at 38th St. in Brooklyn on Friday, May 8, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)\" width=\"9504\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/TNY-P48-20260508-111342.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9065794\" \/>A 13-year-old boy suffered serious head injuries when he was struck by a blue Nissan Versa that was driving southbound on 15th Ave. at 38th St. in Brooklyn on Friday, May 8, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 13-year-old boy crossing a Brooklyn street was struck by a driver, leaving him with serious head injuries&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225126,"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-225125","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\/225125","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=225125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}