A 58-year-old man was fatally struck by an MTA bus in Brooklyn on Saturday night, police said.<\/p>\n
The man was struck around 8 p.m. on Nostrand Avenue, near Clarendon Road, in East Flatbush, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n
Police said the MTA bus was traveling south on Nostrand Avenue when it pulled into a marked bus stop on the west side of the street.<\/p>\n
As the bus pulled away from the curb, the man stepped off the sidewalk and was struck by the rear right side of the bus.<\/p>\n
The man was thrown to the ground, police said.<\/p>\n
According to police, the 43-year-old bus operator was unaware of the collision and continued along her scheduled route.<\/p>\n
The man was transported to NYC Health + Hospitals\/Kings County, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n
Police have not released his identity pending notification of his family.<\/p>\n
There have been no arrests. The NYPD Highway District’s Collision Investigation Squad is investigating.<\/p>\n
The MTA on Saturday referred a request for comment to the NYPD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 58-year-old man was fatally struck by an MTA bus in Brooklyn on Saturday night, police said. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[25,98,576,9,24,12,63,134,136,135,27,200],"class_list":["post-341011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-app-top-stories","tag-brooklyn","tag-erica-brosnan","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341011","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=341011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}