Two women were hospitalized with minor injuries after their gray Honda Civic crashed into a tractor-trailer and overturned on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway Saturday morning, officials said.
All of the eastbound lanes on the BQE near Kent Ave. in Williamsburg were shut down around 8 a.m. as first responders arrived at the scene and rushed the two women, ages 34 and 35, to Woodhull Hospital.
Both women were conscious and talking as they were taken to an awaiting ambulance, officials said.
A Honda sedan traveling eastbound on the Brooklyn Queens Expressway clipped a tractor trailer and overturned just past the Flushing Avenue Exit in Brooklyn on Saturday April 18, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne / New York Daily News)
A Honda sedan traveling eastbound on the Brooklyn Queens Expressway clipped a tractor trailer and overturned just past the Flushing Avenue Exit in Brooklyn on Saturday April 18, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne / New York Daily News)
A Honda sedan traveling eastbound on the Brooklyn Queens Expressway clipped a tractor trailer and overturned just past the Flushing Avenue Exit in Brooklyn on Saturday April 18, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne / New York Daily News)
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A Honda sedan traveling eastbound on the Brooklyn Queens Expressway clipped a tractor trailer and overturned just past the Flushing Avenue Exit in Brooklyn on Saturday April 18, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne / New York Daily News)
The crash occurred near Exit 32, cops said. After striking the tractor-trailer, the sedan landed on its roof. The car’s airbags deployed, witnesses said as they called 911.
The expressway’s eastbound lanes were reopened around noon after the on-site investigation into the crash concluded.