{"id":233506,"date":"2026-05-16T03:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T03:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/233506\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T03:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T03:31:07","slug":"man-72-killed-after-falling-in-front-of-mta-bus-on-staten-island-nypd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/233506\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 72, killed after falling in front of MTA bus on Staten Island: NYPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 72-year-old man was killed after he fell into the path of an oncoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/03\/24\/after-years-of-delay-mta-bus-big-says-brooklyn-depot-will-have-fire-sprinklers-soon\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MTA bus<\/a> on Staten Island Friday, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was struck by the driver of an S48 bus heading east on Forest Ave. after the man fell into the roadway near Veltman Ave. in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2025\/05\/11\/nypd-officers-staten-island-hospital-shots-fired\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Port Richmond<\/a> around 4:20 p.m., according to cops.<\/p>\n<p>The man died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The 43-year-old bus driver continued heading east after the collision, but stopped after being informed of the crash, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>He was not arrested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 72-year-old man was killed after he fell into the path of an oncoming MTA bus on Staten&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,134,136,135,265],"class_list":["post-233506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","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-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233506","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=233506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}