pedestrian death

Authorities say a pedestrian has been struck and killed by a police van in Brooklyn

A man trying to cross the street in a Queens neighborhood Saturday morning was hit and killed by a box truck whose driver had a suspended license, police said. The NYPD said the man was crossing in the street in a wheelchair when the driver struck him. The incident happened around 9 a.m. on Central Avenue near Far Rockaway. Surveillance…

A man walking in a Bronx intersection was killed Sunday morning after he was struck by an ambulance, police and fire officials say. The unidentified male victim was walking near Dekalb Avenue and E Gun Hill Road around 1:20 a.m. when he was struck by the ambulance, according to department officials. The man was reportedly briefly pinned underneath the ambulance…

City officials have confirmed the death of a pedestrian in the Bronx after struck by an ambulance. NBC New York’s Myles Miller reports.