{"id":159374,"date":"2026-03-10T17:08:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T17:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/159374\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T17:08:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T17:08:38","slug":"woman-fatally-struck-in-queens-by-nyc-transportation-department-dump-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/159374\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman fatally struck in Queens by NYC Transportation Department dump truck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman crossing a Queens street was fatally struck by the driver of a city Transportation Department dump truck Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/site\/nypd\/stats\/traffic-data\/traffic-data-collision.page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">police<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the yellow Mac dump truck was heading east on Metropolitan Ave. when he made a right turn onto Lefferts Blvd. and struck the victim just before 9 a.m., cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The victim, believed to be in her early 30s, died at the scene. She was not carrying ID and cops are working to identify her.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"The NYPD Highway Patrol investigates after a pedestrian was fatally struck by a DOT truck on Lefferts Blvd. and 84th St. in Queens, New York City on Tuesday, March 10, 2026. (Gardiner Anderson \/ New York Daily News)\" width=\"3596\" height=\"374\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/TNY-GA-260310-truck05.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"8735063\" \/>NYPD Highway Patrol investigates after a pedestrian was fatally struck by a DOT truck on Lefferts Blvd. and 84th St. in Queens Tuesday. (Gardiner Anderson \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n<p>The driver remained at the scene and was not immediately charged.<\/p>\n<p>An email to the city <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/html\/dot\/html\/home\/home.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Transportation<\/a> seeking comment was not immediately returned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman crossing a Queens street was fatally struck by the driver of a city Transportation Department dump&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159375,"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-159374","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\/159374","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=159374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}