{"id":339167,"date":"2026-09-06T03:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T03:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/339167\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T03:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T03:08:09","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-man-struck-and-killed-by-b44-mta-bus-in-flatbush-hit-and-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/339167\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Man Struck And Killed By B44 Mta Bus In Flatbush Hit And Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A 58-year-old man was fatally struck by a B44 MTA bus during a hit-and-run in Flatbush on Saturday evening, police say.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">It happened in front of 1754 Nostrand Ave., steps from a B44 bus stop.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">According to the NYPD, emergency personnel responded to a 911 call about an unresponsive man in the road just before 8:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Sources close to the investigation say they discovered that the man had stumbled into the side of the bus, causing him to fall onto the road where the bus&#8217;s back tires ran him over.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Paramedics rushed the 58-year-old to Kings County Hospital, where he later died.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Investigators say the B44 bus continued northbound on Nostrand Avenue following the incident.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police sources told News 12 that it does not appear that the victim intentionally bumped into the bus.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">News 12 reached out to the MTA for a statement and was still waiting a response as of Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">No arrests had been made and the man&#8217;s identity had not been released as of Saturday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 58-year-old man was fatally struck by a B44 MTA bus during a hit-and-run in Flatbush on Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-339167","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\/339167","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=339167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}