{"id":326602,"date":"2026-08-21T12:32:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T12:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/326602\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T12:32:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T12:32:24","slug":"the-nypd-is-looking-for-the-driver-of-a-bmw-who-struck-and-killed-a-cyclist-in-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/326602\/","title":{"rendered":"The NYPD is looking for the driver of a BMW who struck and killed a cyclist in Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"xfxe5\">Police are looking for the driver of a gray BMW that fled the scene after fatally hitting a cyclist in Brooklyn on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"938ju\">NYPD officials said the crash happened around 11:50 p.m. at the intersection of East 54th Street and Avenue I in Flatlands. The BMW driver and the cyclist were traveling in opposite directions along Avenue I when they collided as the car turned left onto East 54th Street.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"a4k23\">EMS workers took the cyclist to Brookdale Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to police. The BMW drove away, and police did not immediately have a description of the driver.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"3eibs\">Officials did not release the identity of the cyclist as they worked to notify his family.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"2k0l2\">Thursday\u2019s crash came as police continue looking for the driver of a black BMW that fatally <a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/the-nypd-is-searching-for-a-driver-who-killed-a-bronx-cyclist-in-a-multiple-car-hit-and-run\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">struck 51-year-old Angelo Camera<\/a> on Tuesday night, who was crossing the Bruckner Expressway in the Bronx on an e-bike.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"7d3fs\">Fatalities involving both traditional bicycles and other motorized two-wheelers are up so far this year compared to last, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/trafficstat.nypdonline.org\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">traffic collision data<\/a> from the NYPD. E-bikes, stand-up scooters and motorcycles are leading the trend, the data shows \u2014 each with several more fatal crashes this year than last.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are looking for the driver of a gray BMW that fled the scene after fatally hitting a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-326602","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\/326602","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=326602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}