{"id":126318,"date":"2026-02-07T17:30:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T17:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/126318\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T17:30:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T17:30:32","slug":"bronx-driver-strikes-2-people-2-buildings-in-booze-fueled-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/126318\/","title":{"rendered":"Bronx driver strikes 2 people, 2 buildings in booze-fueled crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An accused drunk driver slammed into two people and two buildings during a wild crash in the Bronx, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/01\/01\/nypd-ends-2025-with-historic-decreases-in-murders-and-shootings-uptick-in-rapes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">police<\/a> said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Suspect Abner Rosa Blanco was driving a white Ford van west on East Tremont Ave. near Lafontaine Ave. outside <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nycgovparks.org\/parks\/tremont-park\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Walter Gladwin Park in Morris Heights<\/a> just before 11 p.m. Friday when he lost control of the wheel and vaulted the curb.<\/p>\n<p>He struck an 18-year-old woman and a 21-year-old man before crashing into two stores between Monterey and Third Aves., witnesses told police.<\/p>\n<p>EMS rushed the two victims to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbhny.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">St. Barnabas Hospital<\/a> with non-life threatening injuries. Rosa Blanco wasn\u2019t injured.<\/p>\n<p>Cops quickly determined the 42-year-old suspect was drunk behind the wheel and charged him with driving while intoxicated.<\/p>\n<p>Rosa Blanco lives in Bridgeport, Conn., roughly 50 miles from where the crashed occurred, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>His arraignment in Bronx Criminal Court was pending on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An accused drunk driver slammed into two people and two buildings during a wild crash in the Bronx,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-126318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126318","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=126318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}