{"id":325222,"date":"2026-08-19T20:12:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T20:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/325222\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T20:12:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T20:12:52","slug":"cyclist-29-killed-in-nyc-hit-and-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/325222\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclist, 29, killed in NYC hit-and-run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A cyclist was killed when a pick-up truck driver rammed into her in Brooklyn Tuesday, hurling her from her bike and running over her body \u2014 before fleeing, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Paulina Tec Choc, 29, was stopped at an intersection on Jamaica Avenue around 5:50 a.m. Tuesday when a 2006 Ford F-250 pickup truck smashed into her e-bike from behind, according to cops.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"40410387\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/137886646.jpg\" alt=\"Intersection of Jamaica Avenue and Cypress Hills Street in Brooklyn.\" class=\"wp-image-40410387\"\/>Paulina Tec Choc, 29, was fatally struck from behind by a Ford pick-up truck as she biked at the intersection of Jamaica Avenue and Cypress Hills Street, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The impact threw the Queens woman to the ground, where she was then run over by the trucker.<\/p>\n<p>Tec Choc suffered severe trauma to the head and body and was transported by EMS to Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center, where she succumbed to her injuries, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The motorist fled the scene at the intersection of Jamaica Avenue and Cypress Hills Street and had not been caught by Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing by the NYPD Highway District\u2019s Collision Investigation Squad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A cyclist was killed when a pick-up truck driver rammed into her in Brooklyn Tuesday, hurling her from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,254,29892,32783,473,57,9,24,63,58],"class_list":["post-325222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-car-crashes","tag-cycling","tag-cyclists","tag-hit-and-run","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325222","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=325222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}