A pedestrian was killed in a hit-and-run crash in Hell’s Kitchen early Saturday morning.<\/p>\n
It happened just after 5:30 a.m. on Ninth Avenue between 54th and 55th streets.<\/p>\n
Police say a 66-year-old man was in the crosswalk when he was struck by a driver, who did not stop.<\/p>\n
According to police sources, the vehicle was a United States Postal Service box truck.<\/p>\n
“First, I see sneakers in the street. People were screaming at me, ‘Watch out, watch out, don’t come this way.’ I didn’t understand. Then I saw the body on the floor,” one witness said. “It’s just upsetting to see something like that, not knowing what happened.”<\/p>\n
After the crash, the victim was rushed to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead. His name has not yet been released.<\/p>\n
Police say no arrests have been made at this time.<\/p>\n
CBS News New York reached out to USPS for comment but has not yet heard back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pedestrian was killed in a hit-and-run crash in Hell’s Kitchen early Saturday morning. It happened just after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-316941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316941","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=316941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}