{"id":339649,"date":"2026-09-07T01:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T01:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/339649\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T01:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T01:34:14","slug":"brooklyn-man-killed-after-being-struck-by-mta-bus-in-flatbush-bus-lane-nbc-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/339649\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn man killed after being struck by MTA bus in Flatbush bus lane \u2013 NBC New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 58-year-old man was killed in Brooklyn after he was struck by an MTA bus in a bus lane near Nostrand Ave. and Clarendon Rd, according to the New York City Police Dept.<\/p>\n

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The victim, wearing a red shirt, is seen to the right this MTA bus, which hit and killed the man after he then made contact with the bus Saturday in Brooklyn’s Little Haiti neighborhood. (Image: NBC New York)<\/p>\n

Police said the crash happened a little after 8:00 PM Saturday night.<\/p>\n

Video captured the man just seconds before he was struck in Brooklyn\u2019s Little Haiti. Cameras from different angles showed the 58-year-old walking toward the bus.<\/p>\n

The NYPD said the man stepped off the sidewalk and somehow made contact near the back of the bus as it pulled away.<\/p>\n

The man was run over by the rear wheels.<\/p>\n

Jean Poinitdujour, who lives in the area, said the tragedy has left people shocked. “That’s a big accident.”<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was already on the ambulance when I got there, but I felt really sad,\u201d said Mera Francois, who also lives in the area.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat’s so sad, you know?,\u201d said Poinitdujour, who knew the victim. \u201cThe bus, the door was closed. And the bus was driving around, he was going. The guy just fall down and he got hit by the tire, the back tire.”<\/p>\n

People who knew the victim said they believe he was intoxicated.<\/p>\n

Some people stopped to offer help, but the man was pronounced dead at the hospital.<\/p>\n

Police have not yet identified him.<\/p>\n

The NYPD said no arrests have been made. It is not clear if the bus driver will face any charges.<\/p>\n

This story was originally reported for broadcast by NBC New York. AI tools helped convert the story to a digital article, and an NBC New York journalist edited the article for publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 58-year-old man was killed in Brooklyn after he was struck by an MTA bus in a bus…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[98,9,11,10],"class_list":["post-339649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-brooklyn","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339649","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=339649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}