{"id":62510,"date":"2025-12-06T04:27:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T04:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/62510\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T04:27:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T04:27:17","slug":"68-year-old-man-killed-by-scooter-while-crossing-queens-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/62510\/","title":{"rendered":"68-year-old man killed by scooter while crossing Queens street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 68-year-old man was struck and killed by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2025\/11\/30\/outbursts-of-gun-violence-within-two-hours-in-brooklyn-manhattan-leave-two-injured\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">scooter<\/a> while crossing the street in Queens on Friday, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was crossing at 168th St. in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2025\/12\/01\/ny-state-gaming-board-approves-three-new-york-city-casinos\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jamaica<\/a> when the scooter driver, who was heading west on 93rd Ave., struck him around 6:37 p.m., cops said.<\/p>\n<p>Medics rushed the victim to <a href=\"https:\/\/jamaicahospital.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jamaica Hospital Medical Center<\/a> in critical condition, but he could not be saved, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Police are withholding the victim\u2019s ID until his family has been notified.<\/p>\n<p>The scooter driver remained at the scene. There has been no arrest.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 68-year-old man was struck and killed by a scooter while crossing the street in Queens on Friday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,122,124,123,265],"class_list":["post-62510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","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-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62510","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=62510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}