{"id":58090,"date":"2025-12-02T03:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T03:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/58090\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T03:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T03:45:08","slug":"85-year-old-pedestrian-fatally-struck-by-van-on-nyc-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/58090\/","title":{"rendered":"85-year-old pedestrian fatally struck by van on NYC street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An 85-year-old man was fatally struck by a van on the Upper East Side on Monday afternoon, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p> Police responded to a 911 call around 2:42 p.m. of a pedestrian struck at the intersection of Park Avenue and East 91st Street, according to the NYPD. <\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.33333333;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37818214\" width=\"787\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/spec-86-year-old-male-116545735.jpg\" alt=\"A grey van stopped in the street with a pool of blood next to it.\" class=\"wp-image-37818214\"  \/>An 85-year-old pedestrian was fatally struck by a van in the Upper East Side on Monday afternoon. Peter Gerber<\/p>\n<p>A preliminary investigation found that a 67-year-old driver of a gray Mercedes-Benz sprinter van hit the unidentified man while traveling westbound on Park Avenue, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The wounded pedestrian was transported to Weill Cornell Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, cops said. <\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.33333333;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37818227\" width=\"787\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/image_058ca2.jpeg\" alt=\"Two police officers and a civilian stand by a white van.\" class=\"wp-image-37818227\"  \/>The van operator remained on the scene after the incident. No arrests have been made.<\/p>\n<p>The driver remained on the scene. No arrests have been made, authorities added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 85-year-old man was fatally struck by a van on the Upper East Side on Monday afternoon, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[254,1015,57,9,56,63,65,64,466,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-58090","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-car-crashes","9":"tag-deaths","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-ny","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-nyc-headlines","15":"tag-nyc-news","16":"tag-upper-east-side","17":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58090","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=58090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}