{"id":30476,"date":"2025-11-06T07:13:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T07:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/30476\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T07:13:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T07:13:18","slug":"man-68-dies-hours-after-truck-driver-in-bronx-strikes-him-in-his-legs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/30476\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 68, dies hours after truck driver in Bronx strikes him in his legs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 68-year-old man died after he was struck by a truck driver in the Bronx, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was in the middle of the crosswalk walking south on Oct. 28 around 12:23 p.m. at E. 149th St. and Third Ave. in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2025\/10\/29\/feds-investigating-suicide-of-border-patrol-agent-in-the-bronx\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Melrose<\/a> when a 40-year-old driver in a 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2025\/09\/25\/midtown-manhattan-hit-run-minivan-driver-arrested-for-crash-that-killed-german-tourist\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Isuzu box truck<\/a> heading west on E. 149th St. struck him, injuring his legs.<\/p>\n<p>EMS transported the man to Lincoln Hospital where he was initially in stable condition but later died of his injuries around 7:02 p.m. His identity was being withheld as cops first try to notify his family members.<\/p>\n<p>The truck driver stayed on scene.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/site\/nypd\/services\/vehicles-property\/faq-for-critical-fatal-injury-collisions.page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NYPD Highway District Collision Investigation Squad<\/a> is investigating the fatal incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 68-year-old man died after he was struck by a truck driver in the Bronx, cops said. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-30476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-city","10":"tag-county","11":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","12":"tag-latest-headlines","13":"tag-local-news","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-new-york-county","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-nyc-crime","20":"tag-sub-county-region","21":"tag-the-bronx","22":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","23":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30476","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=30476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}