{"id":376258,"date":"2026-10-18T13:45:32","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T13:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/376258\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T13:45:32","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T13:45:32","slug":"nypd-seeks-driver-who-fatally-struck-man-46-lying-on-brooklyn-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/376258\/","title":{"rendered":"NYPD seeks driver who fatally struck man, 46, lying on Brooklyn street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cops are looking for a driver who fatally struck a 46-year-old man who was lying down on a Brooklyn street early Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was lying in the roadway when a driver going east on on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/2668+Pitkin+Ave,+Brooklyn,+NY+11208\/@40.6754697,-73.8767495,351m\/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x89c25dbbd0cfd81f:0x9911829ac30a8c8c!8m2!3d40.6749295!4d-73.8736695!16s%2Fg%2F11c1f_1f7n?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI2MTAxMy4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pitkin Ave.<\/a> in East New York struck him near Chestnut St. about 1 a.m., cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The driver left the scene but cops aren\u2019t sure they realized they struck someone.<\/p>\n<p>Medics rushed the victim to Brookdale University Hospital but he could not be saved. His name was not immediately released.<\/p>\n<p>Police are investigating how the victim came to be lying in the roadway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cops are looking for a driver who fatally struck a 46-year-old man who was lying down on a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265],"class_list":["post-376258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376258","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=376258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}