{"id":199498,"date":"2026-04-16T15:58:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T15:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/199498\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T15:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T15:58:07","slug":"man-30-dies-after-rear-ending-tractor-trailer-stopped-on-bronx-expressway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/199498\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 30, dies after rear-ending tractor-trailer stopped on Bronx expressway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 30-year-old man died when he <a href=\"https:\/\/data.cityofnewyork.us\/Public-Safety\/Motor-Vehicle-Collisions-Crashes\/h9gi-nx95\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">rear-ended a tractor-trailer<\/a> that was stopped on a Bronx expressway early Thursday \u2014 and the rig\u2019s driver ran off from the aftermath of the crash.<\/p>\n<p>The tractor-trailer driver was outside his truck dealing with another motorist he had gotten into a minor crash with when the 30-year-old victim slammed his westbound Toyota into the back of the rig on the Cross Bronx Expressway about 12:30 a.m., cops said.<\/p>\n<p>Medics rushed the victim from the scene near the the Clay Ave. exit to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbhny.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St. Barnabas Hospital<\/a>, where he died. His name was not immediately released.<\/p>\n<p>Before cops arrived, the tractor-trailer driver ran off, abandoning his truck. Cops have made no arrests and are looking for the tractor-trailer driver.<\/p>\n<p>Cops were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.police1.com\/police-products\/investigation\/video-surveillance\/articles\/nypd-squads-painstakingly-track-suspects-through-surveillance-video-to-close-cases-pxwsIH6JylUjOpTb\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">scouring the area for surveillance footage<\/a> that could help them determine where the tractor-trailer driver ran off to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 30-year-old man died when he rear-ended a tractor-trailer that was stopped on a Bronx expressway early Thursday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-199498","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-city","10":"tag-county","11":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","12":"tag-latest-headlines","13":"tag-local-news","14":"tag-new-york","15":"tag-new-york-city","16":"tag-new-york-county","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-nyc-crime","20":"tag-sub-county-region","21":"tag-the-bronx","22":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","23":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199498","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=199498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}