{"id":342459,"date":"2026-09-10T02:26:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T02:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/342459\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T02:26:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T02:26:46","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-man-killed-in-downtown-brooklyn-e-bike-crash-identified-by-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/342459\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Man Killed In Downtown Brooklyn E Bike Crash Identified By Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police have released the identity of the man killed in an <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyn.news12.com\/77-year-old-man-killed-in-downtown-brooklyn-e-bike-crash\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">e-bike crash in Downtown Brooklyn<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Thomas Martin Bakas, 77, was killed after he slammed his e-bike into a 47-year-old man riding a bicycle at Smith Street and Schermerhorn Street, according to police.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">They say the bikers were going in opposite directions and Bakas lost control and crashed into the bicyclist.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Bakas was pronounced dead at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The man on the bike was not hurt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have released the identity of the man killed in an e-bike crash in Downtown Brooklyn on Monday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-342459","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\/342459","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=342459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}