{"id":293811,"date":"2026-07-12T15:13:46","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T15:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/293811\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T15:13:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T15:13:46","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-man-dies-after-being-run-over-by-garbage-truck-in-east-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/293811\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Man Dies After Being Run Over By Garbage Truck In East New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say a man is dead after being run over by a garbage truck in Brooklyn on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Just before 5 a.m., police say a garbage truck was backing into a building on Stanley Avenue in East New York when it hit 54-year-old Franklin Torres, who was standing inside the building.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Investigators say Torres then fell, and the truck rolled over him before coming to a stop.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Torres was taken to One Brooklyn Health-Brookdale Hospital Medical Center, where he was later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say the driver of the garbage truck remained on the scene and no arrests have been made.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say the NYPD Highway District&#8217;s Collision Investigation Squad is investigating the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say a man is dead after being run over by a garbage truck in Brooklyn on Wednesday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-293811","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\/293811","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=293811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}