{"id":206717,"date":"2026-04-23T00:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T00:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/206717\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T00:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T00:35:09","slug":"driver-crashes-into-woman-72-sitting-on-bronx-bench-killing-her-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/206717\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver crashes into woman, 72, sitting on Bronx bench, killing her"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A 72-year-old woman was killed while sitting on a bench in <a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/04\/22\/man-woman-arrested-stabbing-pepper-spraying-bronx-health-clinic-guard\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:the Bronx;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">the Bronx<\/a> after a motorist suffered a medical episode and lost control of his car Tuesday afternoon, cops said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ramonita Colon was seated beside a 32-year-old man when the 55-year-old driver of a 2018 Mazda CX5 struck the pair at the corner of Bartow Ave. and Co-Op City Blvd. in <a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2025\/08\/26\/man-24-fatally-shot-in-head-in-argument-with-3-men-near-his-bronx-home\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Co-Op City;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Co-Op City<\/a> around 1:31 p.m., police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The driver was heading north on Co-Op City Blvd. when he lost control of his vehicle, mounted the sidewalk and slammed into the bench that the pair were seated on, said police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The woman was found dead, pinned beneath the Mazda, with severe injuries throughout her body, cops said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Medics rushed the driver and the injured 32-year-old man to <a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nychealthandhospitals.org\/locations\/jacobi\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Jacobi Medical Center;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Jacobi Medical Center<\/a>, where they are both expected to survive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators believe the driver suffered a medical episode at the time of the crash, but an NYPD spokesman could not say specifically what caused him to lose control.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Colon lived in Wakefield more than 3 miles away from where she was killed, cops said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 72-year-old woman was killed while sitting on a bench in the Bronx after a motorist suffered a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,81470,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-206717","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-lost-control","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-the-bronx","14":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","15":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206717","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=206717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}