Man, 72, killed after falling in front of MTA bus on Staten Island: NYPD ⁠3%

By Colin Mixson⁠63%

5/15/2026, 8:12:15 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 3 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice and Framing Effect, with Unattributed Quote as the most egregious example at 54.5% saturation with 55 hits. Analysis detected 94 faulty-reasoning hits from 101 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 14.6% and a BS Rank of ⁠3% (21,328 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 97.40% of the article peer group.

A 72-year-old man was killed after he fell into the path of an oncoming MTA bus on Staten Island Friday, police said. 
The victim was struck by the driver of an S48 bus heading east on Forest Ave. after the man fell into the roadway near Veltman Ave. in Port Richmond around 4:20 p.m., according to cops. 
The man died at the scene. 
The 43-year-old bus driver continued heading east after the collision, but stopped after being informed of the crash, cops said. 
He was not arrested. 
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101 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker14%attributed speech87writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
NYPD • 14 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 22 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 35 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 6 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 20 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 4 words • 0.0% coverage
Selected voice

NYPD

0%flagged-word coverage
14 attributed words100% of attributed speech68% writer coverage
0%32.5%65.0%Unattributed Quote-63.2 ptsWriter: 63.2%NYPD: 0.0%0.0%Biased Writer Voice-40.2 ptsWriter: 40.2%NYPD: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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