{"id":292797,"date":"2026-07-10T22:30:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T22:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/292797\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T22:30:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T22:30:44","slug":"brooklyn-park-police-investigating-after-pickup-truck-driver-strikes-kills-8-year-old-boy-on-electric-scooter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/292797\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Park police investigating after pickup truck driver strikes, kills 8-year-old boy on electric scooter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, say an 8-year-old riding an electric scooter died when a pickup truck struck him Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened around 2 p.m. at the intersection of Candlewood Drive and Brunswick Avenue North, according to officials. The truck had been pulling a trailer at the time of the incident.  <\/p>\n<p>Police say the driver of the pick-up truck immediately called 911, showed no signs of impairment and is cooperating with the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The Minnesota State Patrol is assisting in the probe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, say an 8-year-old riding an electric scooter died when a pickup truck struck&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,7942,9,24,63,25764],"class_list":["post-292797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-brooklyn-park-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-pedestrian-killed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292797","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=292797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}