{"id":323067,"date":"2026-08-17T12:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T12:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/323067\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T12:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T12:52:09","slug":"man-dies-in-bronx-home-3-days-after-being-struck-by-hit-run-pickup-truck-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/323067\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies in Bronx home 3 days after being struck by hit-run pickup truck driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 60-year-old pedestrian died in his Bronx home three days after he was struck by a hit-and-run driver, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/site\/nypd\/services\/vehicles-property\/faq-for-critical-fatal-injury-collisions.page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">police<\/a> said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Kitt Hamilton was crossing E. 183rd St. at Jerome Ave. in Fordham at 5:40 a.m. on May 31 when he was hit by the driver of a Ford F-250 pickup truck heading north on the avenue, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The driver then sideswiped a unoccupied FDNY truck parked outside EMS Station 19 and fled the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Hamilton was taken by medics to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbhny.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St. Barnabas Hospital<\/a> in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>He was later released but died June 3 at his home about a half-mile away from where he was struck, NYPD officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Cops are still looking for the driver who struck him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 60-year-old pedestrian died in his Bronx home three days after he was struck by a hit-and-run driver,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[128,262,263,266,85,267,75,84,83,9,24,264,10,12,63,261,265],"class_list":["post-323067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-bronx","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-new-york-news","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\/323067","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=323067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323067\/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=323067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}