{"id":343075,"date":"2026-09-10T18:44:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T18:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/343075\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T18:44:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T18:44:15","slug":"out-of-control-flatbed-truck-driver-strikes-3-killing-1-on-lower-manhattan-sidewalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/343075\/","title":{"rendered":"Out-of-control flatbed truck driver strikes 3, killing 1, on lower Manhattan sidewalk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An out-of-control flatbed truck driver struck three people on a lower Manhattan sidewalk, leaving one pedestrian dead, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the Chevrolet truck had just crossed the Manhattan Bridge and was heading went on Canal St. in Chinatown when he made a right turn onto the Bowery and vaulted the sidewalk about 10 a.m., cops said.<\/p>\n<p>He struck a 77-year-old man on the sidewalk and two women, ages 71 and 52.<\/p>\n<p>He kept going up the Bowery, getting into a collision with a van a block away near Hester St., cops said.<\/p>\n<p>Medics took the three pedestrians to Bellevue Hospital, where the man died and the women were in stable condition. The 47-year-old man behind the wheel of the van was taken to the same hospital in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>The truck was hauling a large load of wooden pallets.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Police investigate after multiple pedestrians were struck by a truck on Canal St. and Bowery St. in Manhattan on Thursday, Sept. 10, 2026. (Gardiner Anderson \/ New York Daily News)\" width=\"3596\" height=\"352\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/TNY-GA-260910-cis08.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9218339\" \/>Police investigate after three pedestrians were struck by a truck on Canal St. and the Bowery in Manhattan on Thursday. (Gardiner Anderson \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n<p>The 66-year-old truck driver remained at the scene and was taken into police custody, with charges pending.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Police investigate after multiple pedestrians were struck by a truck on Canal St. and Bowery St. in Manhattan on Thursday, Sept. 10, 2026. (Gardiner Anderson \/ New York Daily News)\" width=\"3596\" height=\"352\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/TNY-GA-260910-cis03.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9218334\" \/>Police investigate after three pedestrians were struck by a truck on Canal St. and the Bowery in Manhattan on Thursday. (Gardiner Anderson \/ New York Daily News)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Police investigate after multiple pedestrians were struck by a truck on Canal St. and Bowery St. in Manhattan on Thursday, Sept. 10, 2026. (Gardiner Anderson \/ New York Daily News)\" width=\"3596\" height=\"352\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/TNY-GA-260910-cis11.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9218343\" \/>Police investigate after multiple pedestrians were struck by a truck on Canal St. and the Bowery in Manhattan on Thursday. (Gardiner Anderson \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An out-of-control flatbed truck driver struck three people on a lower Manhattan sidewalk, leaving one pedestrian dead, cops&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343076,"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-343075","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\/343075","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=343075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}