{"id":5878,"date":"2023-02-14T10:02:02","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T15:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/2023\/02\/14\/driver-of-small-truck-hits-pedestrians-in-new-york\/"},"modified":"2023-02-14T10:02:02","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T15:02:02","slug":"driver-of-small-truck-hits-pedestrians-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/2023\/02\/14\/driver-of-small-truck-hits-pedestrians-in-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver of Small Truck Hits Pedestrians in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police in New York said Monday a man drove a small U-Haul rental truck onto a sidewalk in Brooklyn, striking multiple people before he was taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p>A police official told The Associated Press that at least eight pedestrians were injured, and two are in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>Police pursued the truck on a chase through the Bay Ridge neighborhood of Brooklyn, stopping it 5 kilometers away before the vehicle entered a tunnel to Manhattan. Video from news helicopters over the scene showed the truck pinned next to a building, its path blocked by a police cruiser.<\/p>\n<p>New York City councilmember Justin Brannan tweeted, &#8220;We have no idea of motives at this time, but this wasn&#8217;t an accident.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He told WABC-TV in New York that &#8220;police approached this driver and tried to get him to pull over, and at that time, he said something to the effect of, &#8216;I want to die,&#8217; and then proceeded to start driving on the sidewalks in Bay Ridge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The station reported that police called in a bomb squad to search for explosives in the vehicle but found nothing suspicious.<\/p>\n<p>Some information in this report came from The Associated Press and Reuters.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jobbi-after-content-jh-placement jobbi-entity-placement\" id=\"jobbi-3658310290\"><div id=\"jobbi-2480391705\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-5862940809620110\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5862940809620110\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"\" \ndata-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in New York said Monday a man drove a small U-Haul rental truck onto a sidewalk in Brooklyn, striking multiple people before he was taken into custody. A police official told The Associated Press that at least eight pedestrians were injured, and two are in critical condition. Police pursued the truck on a chase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":495,"featured_media":5879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/495"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}