{"id":147494,"date":"2026-02-27T16:46:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T16:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/147494\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:46:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T16:46:06","slug":"man-struck-by-2-cars-on-manhattans-henry-hudson-parkway-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/147494\/","title":{"rendered":"Man struck by 2 cars on Manhattan&#8217;s Henry Hudson Parkway dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man was killed after a minivan slammed into him \u2014 sending him flying into the path of an SUV \u2014 during a massive crash on the Henry Hudson Parkway in Washington Heights, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/01\/01\/nypd-ends-2025-with-historic-decreases-in-murders-and-shootings-uptick-in-rapes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">police<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>Cops on Friday were still trying to identify the victim, who died following Wednesday\u2019s 6:45 p.m. crash.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was crossing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nycgovparks.org\/parks\/X110\/history\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bustling highway<\/a> near W. 151st St. from east to west when he was rammed by a Toyota minivan being driven by a 35-year-old man, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The driver hit the pedestrian in the left lane of the southbound side, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The impact was so severe that the victim was thrown into the left lane of the northbound side, where he was hit by an oncoming Dodge Durango operated by a 41-year-old man.<\/p>\n<p>The victim suffered severe head and body injuries. He was rushed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nychealthandhospitals.org\/locations\/harlem\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harlem Hospital<\/a>, where he died a short time later.<\/p>\n<p>The victim had no ID on him, said police, who added it wasn\u2019t immediately clear how old the victim was.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic on the Henry Hudson Parkway was halted on both sides for several hours as the NYPD\u2019s Collision Investigation Squad launched an inquiry into the fatal crash.<\/p>\n<p>Cops were trying to identify the victim Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Both drivers remained at the scene as police arrived, but have not been charged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was killed after a minivan slammed into him \u2014 sending him flying into the path of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,75,84,83,9,24,264,12,63,261,265],"class_list":{"0":"post-147494","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-city","9":"tag-county","10":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","11":"tag-latest-headlines","12":"tag-local-news","13":"tag-manhattan","14":"tag-manhattan-headlines","15":"tag-manhattan-news","16":"tag-new-york","17":"tag-new-york-city","18":"tag-new-york-county","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-nyc","21":"tag-nyc-crime","22":"tag-sub-county-region"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147494","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=147494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}