{"id":110201,"date":"2026-01-23T20:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T20:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/110201\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T20:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T20:10:14","slug":"nypd-sergeant-kills-driver-in-wrong-way-crash-on-ny-highway-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/110201\/","title":{"rendered":"NYPD sergeant kills driver in wrong-way crash on NY highway: cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An off-duty NYPD sergeant driving the wrong way on the Taconic State Parkway fatally struck another motorist in a head-on Westchester County crash late Thursday, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Sgt. Tiffany Howell, 47 \u2013 an 18-year department veteran \u2013 was behind the wheel of a 2021 Infiniti heading south in the northbound lanes of the Taconic State Parkway around 11:40 p.m. when she slammed directly into a 2024 Toyota, according to State Police.<\/p>\n<p>The Toyota driver, 61-year-old Peekskill resident Manuel Boitel, was rushed to Westchester Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38266979\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2024-toyota-operated-manuel-boitel-119532230.jpg\" alt=\"Sgt. Tiffany Howell, 47, was driving her Infiniti the wrong way on the Taconic State Parkway when she allegedly slammed into 61-year-old Toyota driver Manuel Boitel, killing him, cops said.\" class=\"wp-image-38266979\"  \/>Sgt. Tiffany Howell, 47, was driving her Infiniti the wrong way on the Taconic State Parkway when she allegedly slammed into 61-year-old Toyota driver Manuel Boitel, killing him, cops said.  FNTV<\/p>\n<p>Howell, who lives in Warwick, was taken to the same hospital with non-life threatening injuries, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>Charges were not immediately filed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Investigators are awaiting a toxicology report, law enforcement sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Howell has since been placed on modified duty, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p>Online records show that Howell joined the NYPD in January of 2008, achieving the rank of detective in 2021 and sergeant in 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.89981447;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38266982\" width=\"1024\" height=\"539\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2024-toyota-operated-manuel-boitel-119531190.jpg\" alt=\"Sgt. Tiffany Howell, 47, was driving her Infiniti the wrong way on the Taconic State Parkway when she allegedly slammed into 61-year-old Toyota driver Manuel Boitel, killing him, cops said. \" class=\"wp-image-38266982\"  \/>Howell, an 18-year-department veteran, was placed on modified duty within the NYPD. FNTV<\/p>\n<p>She was assigned to her latest post, within the Youth Strategies Division, this past July, according to the records.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Howell was awarded for \u201cexcellent policy duty\u201d in both July and October of 2014, according to the records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An off-duty NYPD sergeant driving the wrong way on the Taconic State Parkway fatally struck another motorist in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[254,303,57,9,11,10,103,15355,58,1628],"class_list":["post-110201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-car-crashes","tag-crime","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-nypd","tag-taconic-parkway","tag-us-news","tag-westchester-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110201","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=110201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}