{"id":161296,"date":"2026-03-12T11:57:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T11:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/161296\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T11:57:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T11:57:35","slug":"hit-and-run-driver-fatally-strikes-woman-in-queens-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/161296\/","title":{"rendered":"Hit-and-run driver fatally strikes woman in Queens, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"t4t9t\">A 58-year-old woman was killed Wednesday afternoon after a driver hit her in a busy part of Queens and left the scene, police said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"ak37g\">The crash happened around 3 p.m. near a Social Security Administration building at 155-10 Jamaica Ave. in Jamaica, according to the NYPD. The woman was crossing the avenue when she was struck by a dark-colored sedan traveling west, officials said.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"2ujj\">Police said she was taken to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center and pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"3h7dm\">The driver did not remain at the scene, and the NYPD has not yet made any arrests in the case, officials said.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"6pcaf\">Police did not immediately release the woman\u2019s identity as they worked to notify her family.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"52afs\">The NYPD said the investigation into the crash is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"9nr0t\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/assets\/nypd\/downloads\/pdf\/crime_statistics\/cs-en-us-city.pdf\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">City data<\/a> through March 8 shows traffic deaths are down more than 15% citywide, compared to the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"f18f\">This story is based on preliminary information from police and may be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 58-year-old woman was killed Wednesday afternoon after a driver hit her in a busy part of Queens&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-161296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161296","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=161296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}