{"id":301450,"date":"2026-07-21T03:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T03:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/301450\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T03:11:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T03:11:00","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-shocking-video-shows-man-hit-and-killed-by-car-1-of-3-fatal-incidents-in-brooklyn-over-past-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/301450\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Shocking Video Shows Man Hit And Killed By Car 1 Of 3 Fatal Incidents In Brooklyn Over Past Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">News 12 obtained exclusive video that shows the moments a man was hit in a crash on St. Marks and Franklin avenues in Crown Heights on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say it happened just after 3 p.m. when a Toyota Highlander struck a Hyundai Palisade. Sources tell News 12 the Hyundai ran a red light and the collision sent the car crashing into a 67-year-old man standing next to a parked car. He was taken to the hospital but later died.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">News 12 previously reported that 79-year-old Yvette James was hit and killed in a crash <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/79-year-old-woman-struck-and-killed-by-suv-on-east-flatbush-sidewalk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in East Flatbush<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">In a separate incident around 7:45 a.m. on Friday in East New York, police say a pedestrian was hit by a freightliner flatbed truck\u2019s rear tire on Pennsylvania Avenue. Police say he was taken to the hospital, where he later died.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">News 12 spoke with Tyler Miller, a street safety advocate for Transportation Alternatives, about the incidents.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cI think three fatal crashes in a weekend is unacceptable in the city. I know the city is trying to work on this, but I don\u2019t know why it\u2019s taking so long,&#8221; said Miller.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">In all three crashes, police say the drivers remained on the scene. No arrests have been made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"News 12 obtained exclusive video that shows the moments a man was hit in a crash on St.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-301450","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\/301450","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=301450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}