{"id":179666,"date":"2026-03-30T14:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T14:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/179666\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T14:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T14:03:07","slug":"teen-killed-when-private-garbage-truck-driver-hits-her-in-queens-crosswalk-nypd-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/179666\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen killed when private garbage truck driver hits her in Queens crosswalk, NYPD says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"pnd0g\">A private garbage truck driver struck and killed a teenager just minutes away from her home in Queens late Sunday night, the NYPD said.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"4ak2h\">According to police, 19-year-old Nishath Jannath was crossing the street at 62nd Street and Roosevelt Avenue in Woodside around 11:55 p.m. when she was hit by the driver as they turned into the crosswalk.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"sm57\">Jannath lived on 55th Street, police said, about a 10-minute walk from the intersection where she was killed. Emergency medical workers responded to the scene and pronounced her dead, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"dg3rl\">The NYPD said a woman was driving the truck, which officials said was operated by the company Royal Waste. The driver remained at the crash scene and was treated for minor injuries, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"76ofj\">Police said they made no immediate arrests. Royal Waste did not respond to a request for comment about the incident early Monday.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"d8q97\">This story is based on preliminary information from police and may be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A private garbage truck driver struck and killed a teenager just minutes away from her home in Queens&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-179666","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\/179666","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=179666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}