{"id":316736,"date":"2026-08-08T15:20:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T15:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/316736\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T15:20:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T15:20:32","slug":"man-66-fatally-struck-by-passing-car-in-hells-kitchen-crash-nypd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/316736\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 66, fatally struck by passing car in Hell’s Kitchen crash: NYPD"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 66-year-old man died early Saturday after he was struck by a passing car while crossing a street in Hell\u2019s Kitchen, police<\/a> said.<\/p>\n

The victim was crossing Ninth Ave. mid-block near W. 55th St. at about 5:30 a.m. when an unidentified vehicle plowed into him, cops said.<\/p>\n

The driver of the vehicle, which was heading south on Ninth Ave., never stopped, cops said.<\/p>\n

\"PolicePolice investigate after a 66-year-old man was fatally struck by a hit-and-run driver while crossing 9th Ave. mid-block near W. 55th St. in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan, on Saturday, Aug. 8, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

EMS rushed the victim to New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell<\/a>, but he couldn\u2019t be saved. His name was not immediately disclosed as cops track down relatives.<\/p>\n

No arrests have been made.<\/p>\n

\"PolicePolice investigate after a 66-year-old man was fatally struck by a hit-and-run driver while crossing 9th Ave. mid-block near W. 55th St. in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan, on Saturday, Aug. 8, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)
\n\"PolicePolice investigate after a 66-year-old man was fatally struck by a hit-and-run driver while crossing 9th Ave. mid-block near W. 55th St. in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan, on Saturday, Aug. 8, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)
\n\"PolicePolice investigate after a 66-year-old man was fatally struck by a hit-and-run driver while crossing 9th Ave. mid-block near W. 55th St. in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan, on Saturday, Aug. 8, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 66-year-old man died early Saturday after he was struck by a passing car while crossing a street…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,75,84,83,9,24,264,12,63,261,265],"class_list":["post-316736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316736","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=316736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}