{"id":110142,"date":"2026-01-23T19:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T19:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/110142\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T19:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T19:17:09","slug":"off-duty-nypd-officer-injured-in-taconic-state-parkway-fatal-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/110142\/","title":{"rendered":"Off-duty NYPD officer injured in Taconic State Parkway fatal crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A New York City police officer is hospitalized after driving the wrong way on the Taconic State Parkway and crashing into an oncoming car, New York State Police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The driver, identified as 47-year-old Tiffany Howell, of Warwick, a member of the NYPD, was going south in the northbound lanes in Mount Pleasant when the crash occurred at around 11:40 p.m. Thursday, officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The other driver involved in the crash, 61-year-old Manuel Boitel, of Peekskill, was pronounced dead at Westchester Medical Center, according to police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Howell, who was off-duty, was taken to the hospital after suffering what officials said appeared to be non-life threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/taconic-wrong-way-crash-wcbsgizh-hi-res-still-00-00-2722.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"taconic-wrong-way-crash-wcbsgizh-hi-res-still-00-00-2722.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  A 61-year-old man was killed when an off-duty NYPD officer crashed driving the wrong way on the Taconic State Parkway in Mount Pleasant, according to New York State Police. Jan. 22, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>                CBS News New York<\/p>\n<p>The New York State Attorney General&#8217;s Office was notified about the crash and an investigation is ongoing, state police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Please stay with CBS News New York for updates.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A New York City police officer is hospitalized after driving the wrong way on the Taconic State Parkway&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,56,103,32611,1628],"class_list":["post-110142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-nypd","tag-taconic-state-parkway","tag-westchester-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110142","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=110142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}