{"id":317751,"date":"2026-08-10T14:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T14:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/317751\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T14:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T14:20:07","slug":"us-postal-service-driver-arrested-for-killing-manhattan-pedestrian-in-hit-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/317751\/","title":{"rendered":"US Postal Service driver arrested for killing Manhattan pedestrian in hit-run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A heartless mail carrier has been arrested for fatally striking a pedestrian in Hell\u2019s Kitchen with his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/08\/08\/man-66-fatally-struck-by-passing-car-in-hells-kitchen-crash-nypd\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Postal Service box truck<\/a> and then driving off without stopping, police said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>James Simmons was arrested Saturday afternoon for leaving the scene of a fatal accident earlier that day, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>Simmons, 61, was driving a 2019 Peterbilt box truck downtown on Ninth Ave. when he slammed into 66-year-old Chester Mazur, who was crossing mid-block near W. 55th St., about 5:30 a.m., police said.<\/p>\n<p>Medics rushed Mazur to New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell but he could not be saved.<\/p>\n<p>Simmons did not stop after hitting Mazur and continued driving downtown on Ninth Ave., cops said.<\/p>\n<p>Mazur was on the block where he lived when he was struck, according to cops.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was right in the middle of the street,\u201d Dominic Accetta, the owner of Sacco Pizza on Ninth Ave., told the Daily News. \u201cAll I saw was a guy lying on the floor and he was not moving. I saw them put him in the ambulance. They were pumping (his chest).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Simmons lives in St. Albans, Queens, according to cops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A heartless mail carrier has been arrested for fatally striking a pedestrian in Hell\u2019s Kitchen with his U.S.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317752,"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-317751","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\/317751","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=317751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}