{"id":224165,"date":"2026-05-08T01:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T01:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/224165\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T01:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T01:43:08","slug":"killed-cyclists-family-outraged-as-driver-gets-misdemeanor-in-queens-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/224165\/","title":{"rendered":"Killed cyclist\u2019s family outraged as driver gets misdemeanor in Queens collision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man was arrested Thursday on a misdemeanor for killing a father of two, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/01\/20\/bicyclist-killed-collision-ford-pickup-truck-queens\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he struck with his pickup truck as the dad rode his bike<\/a> in Queens, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The victim\u2019s family was outraged to learn that Quinn Daly, 23, had been charged only with failure to yield to a pedestrian for the fatal crash that killed 48-year-old Xi Zheng on Jan. 20. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 30 days in jail and a $250 fine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think that\u2019s fair,\u201d the victim\u2019s nephew Hui Huang, 31, told the Daily News. \u201cThat\u2019s quite light for what he did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Daly was cruising south in his Ford F-150 pickup on 160th St. in Flushing when, while turning right onto Sanford Ave. around 10 a.m., he struck Zheng riding on his bike, according to law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Huang said his family was \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/01\/21\/family-queens-cyclist-killed-collision-say-truck-drive-blame\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">extremely distraught<\/a>\u201d in the wake of Zheng\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt just came out of nowhere,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Medics rushed the stricken cyclist to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyp.org\/locations\/queens\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Presbyterian Queens Hospital<\/a> with severe injuries to his head and body, but he could not be saved.<\/p>\n<p>Zheng, an avid cyclist, was on his way to work when he was killed, according to another nephew.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe always biked to work,\u201d said Jacky Huang.<\/p>\n<p>The victim leaves a son and a daughter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was a good guy, family man,\u201d Huang said. \u201cIt\u2019s sad that he\u2019s leaving behind two kids.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was arrested Thursday on a misdemeanor for killing a father of two, who he struck with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106241,"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-224165","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\/224165","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=224165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}