{"id":191330,"date":"2026-04-09T20:39:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T20:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/191330\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T20:39:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T20:39:14","slug":"driver-in-training-33-crashes-into-nyc-warehouse-building-killing-elderly-relative-in-nightmare-scene-cops-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/191330\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver-in-training, 33, crashes into NYC warehouse building, killing elderly relative in nightmare scene: cops, sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A driver-in-training\u2019s worst nightmare came true Wednesday evening when she smashed into a Brooklyn warehouse building \u2013 killing her elderly relative in the back seat, cops and sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A 33-year-old woman was practicing her driving at the historic Floyd Bennett Field on Flatbush Avenue in Marine Park around 6:10 p.m. when she suddenly lost control of the 2022 Toyota RAV4 and slammed into the building, police and sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Her back seat passenger, 76-year-old Pearle Davis, was taken to Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.33333333;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39039982\" width=\"787\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/police-firefighters-scene-suv-historic-125268879.jpg\" alt=\"Police and firefighters at the scene of an SUV into a historic airport hanger at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn. Wednesday, April 8, 2026. \" class=\"wp-image-39039982\"  \/>A 33-year-old woman was practicing her driving at Floyd Bennett Field on Flatbush Avenue in Marine Park when she suddenly lost control and slammed into a building, police said.\u00a0 William C Lopez\/NY Post<\/p>\n<p>The motorist was hospitalized in critical condition, and a 45-year-old woman who was riding in the front seat was listed in stable condition, cops said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The three women were part of the same family, but their exact relationship was not immediately clear, sources said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.33333333;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39039987\" width=\"787\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/police-firefighters-scene-suv-historic-125268874.jpg\" alt=\"Police and firefighters at the scene of an SUV into a historic airport hanger at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn. \" class=\"wp-image-39039987\"  \/>Pearle Davis, 76, was killed in the collision, police said. <\/p>\n<p>Floyd Bennett Field served as the city\u2019s first municipal airport after World War I.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It no longer serves that original purpose, but a section is still used as a NYPD helicopter base, and one runway is used by hobbyists flying radio-controlled aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A driver-in-training\u2019s worst nightmare came true Wednesday evening when she smashed into a Brooklyn warehouse building \u2013 killing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[98,254,13358,21196,57,9,56,63,65,64,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-191330","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-car-crashes","10":"tag-driving","11":"tag-marine-park","12":"tag-metro","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-nyc-headlines","17":"tag-nyc-news","18":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191330","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=191330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}