{"id":321919,"date":"2026-08-15T06:06:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T06:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/321919\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T06:06:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T06:06:26","slug":"news-12-bronx-73-year-old-nyc-man-struck-and-killed-by-car-in-torrington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/321919\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | 73 Year Old Nyc Man Struck And Killed By Car In Torrington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A 73-year-old New York City man was struck and killed by a car in Torrington, according to the Torrington Police Department.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The crash happened just after 9:30 p.m. Thursday near 1902 Main St.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Authorities say a 54-year-old man was driving a 2019 Subaru eastbound on Main Street when he struck Joel Leyden. The 73-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">According to police, the driver, Carlos Giotto, of Torrington, stayed at the crash site and has been cooperating with the investigation.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">No charges have been filed as of Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Anyone with information about the crash is urged to contact the Torrington Police Department at 860-489-2000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 73-year-old New York City man was struck and killed by a car in Torrington, according to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-321919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321919","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=321919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}