{"id":282052,"date":"2026-06-30T09:25:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T09:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/282052\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T09:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T09:25:09","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-two-dead-at-least-20-others-injured-in-long-island-expressway-overnight-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/282052\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Two Dead At Least 20 Others Injured In Long Island Expressway Overnight Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Two people are dead and several others were injured in a multiple car crash on the Long Island Expressway late Monday night. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police responded to a call for a crash on the Long Island Expressway near Exit 16 at around 11:45.m.  <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Investigators say a coach bus traveling westbound on the Long Island expressway collided with a car, causing it to strike another vehicle. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The initial crash flipped the coach bus over a medium, and the bus struck two other vehicles traveling eastbound oncoming traffic. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">When EMS responded to the scene, they pronounced the coach bus operator and a passenger on the bus deceased. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The operators of the initial two cars struck and one of the cars traveling eastbound were taken to local hospitals and are expected to be OK. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The operator of the other car traveling eastbound is in critical condition. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The FDNY says at least 20 other passengers have been transported to area hospitals and are expected to be OK. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">NOTIFY NYC and NYPD are urging commuters to take alternate routes as lanes continue to be closed causing major delays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people are dead and several others were injured in a multiple car crash on the Long Island&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-282052","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\/282052","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=282052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}