{"id":201879,"date":"2026-04-18T19:19:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T19:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/201879\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T19:19:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T19:19:12","slug":"two-women-hospitalized-after-their-car-crashes-overturns-on-bqe-in-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/201879\/","title":{"rendered":"Two women hospitalized after their car crashes, overturns on BQE in Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two women were hospitalized with minor injuries after their gray Honda Civic <a href=\"https:\/\/data.cityofnewyork.us\/Public-Safety\/Motor-Vehicle-Collisions-Crashes\/h9gi-nx95\/about_data\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">crashed<\/a> into a tractor-trailer and overturned on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway Saturday morning, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>All of the eastbound lanes on the BQE near Kent Ave. in Williamsburg were shut down around 8 a.m. as first responders arrived at the scene and rushed the two women, ages 34 and 35, to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nychealthandhospitals.org\/locations\/woodhull\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Woodhull Hospital<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Both women were conscious and talking as they were taken to an awaiting ambulance, officials said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A Honda sedan traveling eastbound on the Brooklyn Queens Expressway...\" class=\"size-article_inline\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/TNY-P12-20260418-081344.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A Honda sedan traveling eastbound on the Brooklyn Queens Expressway clipped a tractor trailer and overturned just past the Flushing Avenue Exit in Brooklyn on Saturday April 18, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A Honda sedan traveling eastbound on the Brooklyn Queens Expressway...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/TNY-P1-20260418-080900.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/TNY-P1-20260418-080900.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A Honda sedan traveling eastbound on the Brooklyn Queens Expressway clipped a tractor trailer and overturned just past the Flushing Avenue Exit in Brooklyn on Saturday April 18, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A Honda sedan traveling eastbound on the Brooklyn Queens Expressway...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/TNY-P15-20260418-081452.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/TNY-P15-20260418-081452.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A Honda sedan traveling eastbound on the Brooklyn Queens Expressway clipped a tractor trailer and overturned just past the Flushing Avenue Exit in Brooklyn on Saturday April 18, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n<p>Show Caption<\/p>\n<p>1 of 3<\/p>\n<p>A Honda sedan traveling eastbound on the Brooklyn Queens Expressway clipped a tractor trailer and overturned just past the Flushing Avenue Exit in Brooklyn on Saturday April 18, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"icon-enlarge mng-gallery-fullscreen-expand\" aria-label=\"Expand fullscreen slideshow\">Expand<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The crash occurred near Exit 32, cops said. After striking the tractor-trailer, the sedan landed on its roof. The car\u2019s airbags deployed, witnesses said as they called 911.<\/p>\n<p>The expressway\u2019s eastbound lanes were reopened around noon after the on-site investigation into the crash concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two women were hospitalized with minor injuries after their gray Honda Civic crashed into a tractor-trailer and overturned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[98,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,122,124,123,265],"class_list":{"0":"post-201879","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-brooklyn","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-queens","21":"tag-queens-headlines","22":"tag-queens-news","23":"tag-sub-county-region"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201879","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=201879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}