{"id":163281,"date":"2026-03-14T13:56:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T13:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/163281\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T13:56:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T13:56:34","slug":"man-44-killed-after-suv-slams-into-backhoe-on-bronx-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/163281\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 44, killed after SUV slams into backhoe on Bronx street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 44-year-old man was killed when the SUV he was riding in rear-ended a parked backhoe on a Bronx street, <a href=\"https:\/\/data.cityofnewyork.us\/Public-Safety\/Motor-Vehicle-Collisions-Crashes\/h9gi-nx95\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">police<\/a> said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was a front-seat passenger in a 2017 Toyota Highlander heading west on E. 233rd St. near Provost Ave. in the Baychester section of the Bronx at about 10:30 p.m. Friday when the 24-year-old man driving lost control of the wheel, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The Highlander veered off, striking the massive piece of construction equipment parked on the block.<\/p>\n<p>EMS rushed the 44-year-old passenger to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nychealthandhospitals.org\/locations\/jacobi\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jacobi Hospital<\/a>, but he couldn\u2019t be saved. His name was not immediately disclosed as cops track down relatives.<\/p>\n<p>The younger driver and a second 44-year-old man sitting in the back seat were also rushed to Jacobi Hospital, where they are expected to survive.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests were made as members of the <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/post\/nypd-collision-investigation-squad-gives-behind-scenes-look-how-investigate-hit-runs-deadly-crashes\/18247920\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NYPD Collision Investigation Squad<\/a>\u00a0 determines what sparked the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 44-year-old man was killed when the SUV he was riding in rear-ended a parked backhoe on a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-163281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","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-sub-county-region","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163281","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=163281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}