{"id":182292,"date":"2026-04-01T16:13:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T16:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/182292\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T16:13:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T16:13:38","slug":"queens-teen-fatally-hit-by-private-sanitation-truck-was-buying-birthday-cake-for-her-sister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/182292\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens teen fatally hit by private sanitation truck was buying birthday cake for her sister"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 19-year-old woman struck and killed by a private sanitation truck driver<\/a> in Queens had stopped to pick up a cake for her little sister\u2019s birthday, friends and relatives said Tuesday.<\/p>\n

That final selfless act put Jannath Nishath in the path of the hulking turning trash truck about 11:55 p.m. Sunday \u2014 and cut short her promising life.<\/p>\n

\u201cHer little sister asked her to buy the cake,\u201d said Amin Mehedi, a family friend. \u201cShe went to the store and she was coming home. Family members were waiting and wondering why she wasn\u2019t home yet. One of the sisters found her location because her last phone location was there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Relatives said Nishath was on her way home from her part-time job as a cashier in a Jamaica parking garage when she stopped for the cake and was struck. She was a student at City College in Manhattan, her family says.<\/p>\n

The death is especially hard on Nishath\u2019s sister, whose birthday will forever be associated with the young woman\u2019s death, Mehedi said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are so shocked this happened,\u201d Mehedi said. \u201cWe never expect for someone so young to lose their life. She was a hardworking girl. She was going to college.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"TheThe funeral service at Woodside Baitul Jannah Masjid for Jannath Nishath on Tuesday. (Nicholas Williams \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

Nishath was crossing 62nd St. in Woodside when she was hit by a Royal Waste Services<\/a> garbage truck whose driver was turning off Roosevelt Ave. She died at the scene, about a half-mile from her home.<\/p>\n

Friends and relatives gathered at the Baitul Jannah Masjid mosque not far from her home, where mourners said their last goodbyes Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Speakers at her funeral, including her father, Helal Ahmed, who is the mosque\u2019s imam, shared emotional tributes.<\/p>\n

\"NishathNishath Jannath was fatally struck by a garbage truck on 62nd St. and Roosevelt Ave. in Woodside, Queens, on Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe entire family is devastated,\u201d said Mohammed Siddik, the victim\u2019s cousin.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was a very nice, very brilliant student. She was very soft and very caring to her parents. She was close with her father and at a young age she wanted to get a job to support her family.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 38-year-old driver remained at the scene. She faced no immediate charges.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe funeral service at Woodside Baitul Jannah Masjid for Jannath Nishath on Tuesday. (Nicholas Williams \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

Nishath is survived by her parents and four sisters.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe is the second daughter,\u201d said Athaur Rahman Salim, another family friend. \u201cShe attended this mosque her whole life.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 19-year-old woman struck and killed by a private sanitation truck driver in Queens had stopped to pick…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182293,"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-182292","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\/182292","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=182292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}