{"id":30939,"date":"2025-11-06T17:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T17:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/30939\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T17:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T17:49:08","slug":"27-year-old-woman-dies-after-being-struck-by-van-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/30939\/","title":{"rendered":"27-year-old woman dies after being struck by van in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 27-year-old woman died after being hit by a van as she crossed a West Village street during the Thursday morning rush, cops and sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The woman, who was from Cambridge, Massachusetts, was crossing Morton Street at the Seventh Avenue South intersection just after 8:30 a.m. when the motorist rammed into her, authorities and sources said.<\/p>\n<p>She was rushed to Bellevue Hospital, where she succumbed to her injuries around 9:10 a.m., police said.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37592830\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/nypd-6th-pct-police-morton-114909946.jpg\" alt=\"Police tape cordoning off a street with a black van and an open box truck, with several police officers present.\" class=\"wp-image-37592830\"  \/>Police at the scene where a woman was struck by a van in the West Village at Morton Street and 7th Avenue South. William Farrington<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37592664\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/van-struck-pedestrian-morton-street-114909950_92816e.jpg\" alt=\"The van driver, in a blue sweatshirt, stands by a pole with two hands on his head, while a woman in a black jacket and a woman in a black baseball cap react with looks of shock and concern.\" class=\"wp-image-37592664\"  \/>Sources described the driver as a 61-year-old man driving a black 2020 GMC Savana van with New Jersey plates. William Farrington<\/p>\n<p>The driver, whom sources describe as a 61-year-old man behind the wheel of a black 2020 GMC Savana van with New Jersey plates, stayed on scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement sources said he was spotted driving the wrong way, but he was not immediately charged, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The woman has not been officially identified pending family notification, and the NYPD\u2019s Collision Investigation Squad is probing the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 27-year-old woman died after being hit by a van as she crossed a West Village street during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[254,75,84,83,57,9,24,63,58,2380],"class_list":{"0":"post-30939","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-car-crashes","9":"tag-manhattan","10":"tag-manhattan-headlines","11":"tag-manhattan-news","12":"tag-metro","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-us-news","17":"tag-west-village"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30939","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=30939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}