{"id":127098,"date":"2026-02-08T22:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T22:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/127098\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T22:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T22:07:09","slug":"toddler-fatally-struck-by-bmw-driver-in-queens-apartment-building-parking-garage-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/127098\/","title":{"rendered":"Toddler fatally struck by BMW driver in Queens apartment building parking garage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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\" data-ylk=\"slk:fatally struck by a BMW driver;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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\" data-ylk=\"slk:on 98th St. near 62nd Drive;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">on 98th St. near 62nd Drive<\/a> in Rego Park about 7:40 p.m. Saturday , cops said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Medics rushed Imron to New York-Presbyterian Hospital Queens but he could not be saved.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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":127099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[13165,9,24,63,26992,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-127098","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-bmw","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-nyc","12":"tag-parking-garage","13":"tag-queens","14":"tag-queens-headlines","15":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127098","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=127098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}