{"id":324635,"date":"2026-08-19T03:14:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T03:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/324635\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T03:14:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T03:14:30","slug":"woman-killed-in-brooklyn-hit-and-run-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/324635\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman Killed In Brooklyn Hit-And-Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Police are searching for the driver. <\/p>\n<p>Aug 18, 2026 3:27 PM EDT | Updated Aug 18, 2026 8:29 PM EDT<\/p>\n<p>BROOKLYN, NY\u2014 A 29-year-old woman died after a hit-and-run crash in Cypress Hills, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>The woman was riding on a two-wheeled vehicle on Cypress Hills Street near Jamaica Avenue when a white pickup truck struck her from behind, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-subscribe\">\n  <a class=\"article-subscribe-link\" href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/new-york\/brooklyn\/subscribe?utm_source=amp&amp;utm_campaign=subscribe&amp;utm_medium=mobile&amp;utm_term=subscribe_in_article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>The driver fled the scene, and police are searching for the suspect.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency responders took the woman to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>Police are waiting to notify her family before releasing her identity.<\/p>\n<p>NYC Vision Zero crash data shows at least one other fatal crash at the Jamaica Avenue and Cypress Hills Street intersection. <\/p>\n<p>The location also was the site of a fatal electric-scooter crash in May, when 42-year-old Juan Quishpe died after striking a concrete barrier near the intersection, according to police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are searching for the driver. Aug 18, 2026 3:27 PM EDT | Updated Aug 18, 2026 8:29&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-324635","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\/324635","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=324635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}