{"id":126839,"date":"2026-02-08T14:38:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T14:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/126839\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T14:38:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T14:38:25","slug":"toddler-fatally-struck-by-bmw-driver-in-queens-apartment-building-parking-garage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/126839\/","title":{"rendered":"Toddler fatally struck by BMW driver in Queens apartment building parking garage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 1-year-old boy was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/07\/02\/nyregion\/traffic-safety-vision-zero.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fatally struck by a BMW driver<\/a> in a parking garage next door to the victim\u2019s family\u2019s Queens apartment building, police said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Little Imron Bakhtiyorov was hit by the driver of a 2025 BMW X4 in the garage <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/61-55+98th+St,+Rego+Park,+NY+11374\/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x89c25e3409f95581:0xf5abdd3dc7dbce0c?sa=X&amp;ved=1t:242&amp;ictx=111\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on 98th St. near 62nd Drive<\/a> in Rego Park about\u00a0 7:40 p.m. Saturday , cops said.<\/p>\n<p>Medics rushed Imron to New York-Presbyterian Hospital Queens but he could not be saved.<\/p>\n<p>The boy\u2019s parents were present during the crash, cops said. The driver and the child\u2019s family are not related, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old driver stayed at the scene and faced no immediate charges as cops continue to investigate the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 1-year-old boy was fatally struck by a BMW driver in a parking garage next door to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,122,124,123,265],"class_list":["post-126839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","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-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126839","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=126839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}