{"id":387174,"date":"2026-10-30T00:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T00:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/387174\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T00:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T00:24:08","slug":"6-hurt-as-driver-crashes-onto-sidewalk-at-nypd-halloween-event-in-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/387174\/","title":{"rendered":"6 hurt as driver crashes onto sidewalk at NYPD Halloween event in Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six people were injured, including three children, when a driver jumped a curb and slammed into a parked ambulance at an NYPD<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/10\/16\/google-drops-its-frightgeist-halloween-costumes-list\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Halloween<\/a> trick or treat event in Brooklyn Thursday, cops and police sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Driving a black sedan, the out-of-control motorist, 56, careened onto the sidewalk on Bleecker St. near Knickerbocker Ave. outside the 83rd Precinct in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/10\/20\/mamdani-announces-expansion-anti-gun-violence-program-harlem-bushwick\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bushwick<\/a> around 3:54 p.m., police said.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle struck the six pedestrians before slamming into the parked ambulance.<\/p>\n<p>A woman, 74, and a boy, 8, were taken to <a href=\"https:\/\/whmcny.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wyckoff Heights Medical Center<\/a>, a woman, 31, and two girls, ages 6 and 11, were taken to Bellevue Hospital, and a woman, 58, was taken to Elmhurst Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>All the victims are expected to survive.<\/p>\n<p>The driver and his passenger were taken into custody, according to police. There were no immediate charges.<\/p>\n<p>Breathalyzer test results are pending, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The 83rd Precinct\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NYPD83pct\/posts\/bushwick-lets-boogiemake-sure-to-stop-by-on-thursday-1029-for-our-trunk-or-treat\/1472150481741750\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trunk-or-Treat<\/a>\u201d event featured free candy, a DJ, decorated police cars and a chance to meet an NYPD K9 unit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Six people were injured, including three children, when a driver jumped a curb and slammed into a parked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[90,98,100,99,2214,245,2837,140872,9,24,63,103,15960,12852],"class_list":["post-387174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-accident","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-crash","tag-halloween","tag-injuries","tag-jump-curb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-trick-or-treat","tag-trunk-or-treat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387174","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=387174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}