{"id":343291,"date":"2026-09-10T22:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T22:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/343291\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T22:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T22:40:14","slug":"out-of-control-truck-driver-mounts-curb-hits-3-pedestrians-1-fatally-at-buzzing-nyc-intersection-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/343291\/","title":{"rendered":"Out-of-control truck driver mounts curb, hits 3 pedestrians \u2013 1 fatally \u2013 at buzzing NYC intersection: cops"},"content":{"rendered":"

A elderly man was killed and two other people were injured when a graffiti-covered flatbed truck careened onto a curb and ran them down at a busy Lower Manhattan intersection Thursday morning, cops said. <\/p>\n

The 66-year-old driver was turning right on Bowery from Canal Street in Chinatown at around 10:20 a.m. when the cargo-laden vehicle hurtled onto the sidewalk and killed the 77-year-old man and left two women, ages, 71 and 52, hospitalized, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The three victims struck \u2014 one fatally \u2014 by a truck overloaded with wooden pallets in Chinatown were left sprawled out on the sidewalk. Obtained by the NY Post<\/p>\n

The 66-year-old driver was seen being given a field sobriety test after the fatal crash. He has not been charged, and showed no overt signs of impairment, law enforcement sources said. Matthew McDermott for NY Post<\/p>\n

A photo from the scene obtained by The Post shows the three victims sprawled out on the pavement \u2013 two right next to each other and the third a couple feet away.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But the trucker continued driving toward the end of the block at Hester Street, where he slammed into a sedan and stopped, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The pedestrians were taken to Bellevue Hospital, where the senior succumbed to his injuries and the two women were listed in stable condition, cops said.<\/p>\n

Video obtained by Streetsblog<\/a> shows the truck, with wooden pallets piled up on the deck, moving faster than other traffic on the street and nudging another truck in its path.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The out-of-control motorist also struck a sedan in his path before stopping, police said. Matthew McDermott for NY Post<\/p>\n

The crash is being reviewed by the NYPD\u2019s by the NYPD\u2019s Highway District\u2019s Collision Investigation Squad, police said. Matthew McDermott for NY Post<\/p>\n

The moment the driver allegedly struck the pedestrians and the sedan is not shown.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The motorist was taken into custody and was not immediately charged.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He didn\u2019t show any overt signs of impairment, according to law enforcement sources.<\/p>\n

The investigation is ongoing by the NYPD\u2019s Highway District\u2019s Collision Investigation Squad, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A elderly man was killed and two other people were injured when a graffiti-covered flatbed truck careened onto…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[254,9098,359,57,9,56,63,65,64,4159,16733,58],"class_list":["post-343291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-car-crashes","tag-chinatown","tag-lower-manhattan","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-pedestrians","tag-trucks","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343291","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=343291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}