{"id":305475,"date":"2026-07-25T14:13:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T14:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/305475\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T14:13:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T14:13:14","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-minivan-fatally-strikes-scooter-rider-in-dyker-heights-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/305475\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Minivan Fatally Strikes Scooter Rider In Dyker Heights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A minivan struck and killed a scooter rider in Dyker Heights, police say.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The NYPD identified the victim as 20-year-old Ajpop Walter, who was hit just blocks from his home. It happened just before 5:15 p.m. Wednesday near 14th Avenue and 77th Street.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say Walter and the 2012 Toyota Sienna were both traveling southbound on 14th Avenue at the time of the crash.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Paramedics rushed the 20-year-old to Maimonides Medical Center, where he died.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">According to the NYPD, the 56-year-old man who was driving the minivan stayed on scene after the crash.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">No arrests have been made as of Friday evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A minivan struck and killed a scooter rider in Dyker Heights, police say. The NYPD identified the victim&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-305475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305475","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=305475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}