{"id":247219,"date":"2026-05-29T01:20:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T01:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/247219\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T01:20:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T01:20:40","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-man-struck-and-killed-by-van-driving-in-reverse-in-dyker-heights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/247219\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Man Struck And Killed By Van Driving In Reverse In Dyker Heights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A 37-year-old man was struck and killed by a van that was driving in reverse in Dyker Heights, the NYPD says.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The man was moving construction debris out of the road just before 8 p.m. Monday at 90 Street and Parrott Place when he was struck by the 2012 Ford Econoline, allegedly driven by Baber Choudhary.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say the man was briefly trapped between the van and the debris before falling onto the road, where emergency responders found him with severe body trauma.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Paramedics rushed the man to NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn, where he died.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Ford Econoline took off, heading southbound on Parrott Place and eventually hitting a parked, unoccupied Toyota Camry.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Choudhary, 48, of Staten Island, was arrested the following day around 9 p.m. He is charged with leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The victim&#8217;s identity has not been released as of Thursday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 37-year-old man was struck and killed by a van that was driving in reverse in Dyker Heights,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-247219","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\/247219","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=247219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}