{"id":179626,"date":"2026-03-30T13:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T13:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/179626\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T13:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T13:24:09","slug":"19-year-old-killed-by-garbage-truck-while-crossing-street-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/179626\/","title":{"rendered":"19-year-old killed by garbage truck while crossing street in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 19-year-old woman was struck and killed by a garbage truck in Queens late Sunday night, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>The young woman, identified by police as Nishath Jannath, was crossing 62nd Street at Roosevelt Avenue in Woodside when a sanitation truck operated by Royal Waste Services hit her in the crosswalk around 11:55 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38935642\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/124714711.jpg\" alt=\"crash scene Queens\" class=\"wp-image-38935642\"  \/>The 19-year-old victim, Nishath Jannath, was declared dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38935643\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/nypd-emts-scene-fatal-car-124706635.jpg\" alt=\"No arrests were made and the crash remains under investigation.\" class=\"wp-image-38935643\"  \/>No arrests were made and the crash remains under investigation. William Miller<\/p>\n<p>The truck was traveling west on Roosevelt Avenue and made a right-hand turn onto the northbound lane of 62nd Street when it hit her on the north side of the intersection, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>Jannath was declared dead at the scene by EMS.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the sanitation truck, a 38-year-old woman, remained at the scene and was treated for minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made and the investigation by NYPD\u2019s Highway District Collision Investigation Squad remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Royal Waste, which is based out of Jamaica, Queens, and boasts itself as the leading recycling company, in the city, did not immediately respond to The Post\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 19-year-old woman was struck and killed by a garbage truck in Queens late Sunday night, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[254,1015,57,9,56,63,65,64,122,16733,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-179626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-car-crashes","9":"tag-deaths","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-ny","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-nyc-headlines","15":"tag-nyc-news","16":"tag-queens","17":"tag-trucks","18":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179626","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=179626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}