{"id":179800,"date":"2026-03-30T16:38:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T16:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/179800\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T16:38:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T16:38:25","slug":"queens-woman-19-fatally-struck-by-private-sanitation-truck-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/179800\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens woman, 19, fatally struck by private sanitation truck driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 19-year-old woman crossing a Queens street was fatally struck by the driver of a private sanitation truck, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/site\/nypd\/services\/vehicles-property\/faq-for-critical-fatal-injury-collisions.page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">police<\/a> said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Jannath Nishath was crossing 62nd St. in Woodside when she was struck by the driver of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.royalwaste.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Royal Waste Services<\/a> garbage truck turning off Roosevelt Ave. about 11:55 p.m. Sunday, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The victim died at the scene, about a half-mile from her home.<\/p>\n<p>The 38-year-old driver remained at the scene and was not immediately charged as cops probe the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Royal Waste Services did not immediately comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 19-year-old woman crossing a Queens street was fatally struck by the driver of a private sanitation truck,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179801,"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-179800","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\/179800","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=179800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}