{"id":227634,"date":"2026-05-11T20:17:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T20:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/227634\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T20:17:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T20:17:40","slug":"news-12-bronx-man-charged-in-head-on-collision-that-left-several-injured-on-montauk-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/227634\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Man Charged In Head On Collision That Left Several Injured On Montauk Highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Several people were injured in a head-on collision on Montauk Highway, according to police.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The crash happened Sunday just after 1:30 p.m. at the bend by Kalers Pond.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say that Bernard Johnson was driving a Nissan westbound on Montauk Highway and attempted to pass a Honda and while doing so struck a Chevrolet traveling eastbound.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Honda then got hit by the vehicles following the initial collision, police say.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">When responding to the scene, fire crews say they found out that one occupant trapped and unresponsive.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Fire officials say the Jaws of Life has to be used to remove the drivers side door of one trapped person.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A man and woman inside the Chevrolet were taken to NYU Langone for treatment of minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Honda driver was uninjured.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Johnson has been charged with operating a motor vehicle while impaired by drugs.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">He was taken to the hospital injuries not considered life-threatening. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several people were injured in a head-on collision on Montauk Highway, according to police. The crash happened Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-227634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227634","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=227634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}