{"id":327885,"date":"2026-08-23T17:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T17:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/327885\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T17:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T17:08:12","slug":"woman-22-killed-by-hit-run-driver-while-crossing-sixth-ave-in-west-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/327885\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman, 22, killed by hit-run driver while crossing Sixth Ave. in West Village"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 22-year-old woman crossing Sixth Ave. in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityneighborhoods.nyc\/west-village\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">West Village<\/a> was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/html\/dot\/html\/pr2026\/vision-zero-pedestrian-deaths-at-historic-low.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fatally struck by a hit-and-run driver<\/a> early Sunday, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was crossing Sixth Ave. near W. Washington Place in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityneighborhoods.nyc\/west-village\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">West Village<\/a> just before 5 a.m. when someone in a gray vehicle traveling uptown slammed into her. The driver fled west on Waverly Place without stopping, police said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"A 22yr old woman walking westbound on West Washington Place and crossing 6th Avenue using the southern crosswalk was pronounced dead at Bellevue Hospital after a grey colored vehicle struck her in Manhattan on Sunday August 23, 2026. 1048. The driver then fled the scene in the car. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)\" width=\"2583\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/TNY-P11-20260823-105325.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9198415\" \/>Police investigate after a 22-year-old woman was fatally struck by a hit-and-run driver in the West Village early Sunday. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n<p>The woman suffered severe head trauma. Medics rushed her to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nychealthandhospitals.org\/locations\/bellevue\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bellevue Hospital<\/a>, where she died, police said. Her name was not immediately released.<\/p>\n<p>The driver has not been caught.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 22-year-old woman crossing Sixth Ave. in the West Village was fatally struck by a hit-and-run driver early&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,75,9,24,264,11,10,12,261,265],"class_list":["post-327885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-manhattan","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-news","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327885","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=327885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}