{"id":268931,"date":"2026-06-16T21:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T21:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/268931\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T21:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T21:37:07","slug":"news-12-bronx-exclusive-driver-accused-of-causing-bronx-river-parkway-crash-flees-scene-sending-man-to-the-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/268931\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Exclusive Driver Accused Of Causing Bronx River Parkway Crash Flees Scene Sending Man To The Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">An unknown driver is accused of causing an accident on the Bronx River Parkway and then fleeing the scene late Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The FDNY says the accident happened just before 11 a.m. on the southbound lanes of the Bronx River Parkway near Exit 7E.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Two cars were damaged in the crash: a white Lexus and a gray Volkswagen.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A News 12 crew on the scene found the Lexus under an overpass waiting to be towed Tuesday afternoon. The Volkswagen sustained extensive front-end damage and was at the site of the crash.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Family members of the Lexus driver told News 12 he was taken to the hospital with neck and back injuries but is expected to recover.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The driver of the Volkswagen, who remained at the scene, says another driver abruptly moved across lanes, brake-checked traffic and triggered the crash before continuing down the parkway.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">No serious injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The driver who allegedly caused the crash had not been located as of Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An unknown driver is accused of causing an accident on the Bronx River Parkway and then fleeing the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-268931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268931","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=268931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}