{"id":176208,"date":"2026-03-26T16:47:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T16:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/176208\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T16:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T16:47:07","slug":"queens-cyclist-killed-in-long-island-hit-and-run-driver-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/176208\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens cyclist killed in Long Island hit-and-run; driver arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A hit-and-run driver struck and killed a Queens cyclist as the <a href=\"https:\/\/longisland.news12.com\/long-beach-woman-arrested-for-fatally-striking-bicyclist-fleeing-the-scene\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">victim was pedaling through Long Island<\/a>, authorities said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Tony Thomas was rolling past the corner of Beech St. near Scott Drive in Atlantic Beach around 7:45 a.m. Tuesday when a driver in a passing Honda HR-V struck him, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pdcn.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nassau County police<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>The woman behind the wheel of the small-sized SUV sped off and was last seen heading down Beech St.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas died at the scene. Officials said he lived in Far Rockaway, not far from the spot of the fatal collision.<\/p>\n<p>Nassau County and Long Beach cops tracked down the HR-V and arrested the driver, who was identified as 67-year-old Erin Henry.<\/p>\n<p>The Long Beach resident was charged with leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death.<\/p>\n<p>She was ordered held on $25,000 bail at her arraignment Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A hit-and-run driver struck and killed a Queens cyclist as the victim was pedaling through Long Island, authorities&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176209,"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-176208","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\/176208","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=176208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}