{"id":282085,"date":"2026-06-30T10:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T10:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/282085\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T10:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T10:26:11","slug":"lie-crash-kills-two-injures-20-as-lanes-in-queens-remain-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/282085\/","title":{"rendered":"LIE crash kills two, injures 20 as lanes in Queens remain shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people are dead, and 20 are injured after a bus crash on the Long Island Expressway in Queens, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>The fatal accident happened around 11:45 p.m. Monday near the Greenpoint Avenue exit.<\/p>\n<p>A coach bus was heading eastbound near Greenpoint Avenue when it slammed into a vehicle, which then struck another car in front of it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The initial impact caused the bus to flip over the central median into oncoming traffic. It then struck two other vehicles in the westbound lanes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the bus and a male passenger were killed on impact. Twenty others were hurt, including three critically, officers said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More than 70 fire and EMS workers responded to the crash that shut down the highway in both directions.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic remained at a complete standstill Monday night. Cars stretched back as far as the eye could see as first responders evaluated the wreckage and rushed those injured to local hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/lie-multiple-fatal-acci-wcbsi9xy-hi-res-still-00-00-0906.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"lie-multiple-fatal-acci-wcbsi9xy-hi-res-still-00-00-0906.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  A bus crash on the LIE snarled traffic Monday night near the Greenpoint Avenue exit in Queens.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                CBS News New York<\/p>\n<p>Drivers were seen wandering out of their cars, on their phones, trying to figure out an exit plan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, they were directed to reverse and get off through an on-ramp.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That stretch of the expressway is still closed in both directions. It&#8217;s unclear when all lanes will reopen as police continue to investigate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people are dead, and 20 are injured after a bus crash on the Long Island Expressway in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[2422,776,58525,9,24,63,103,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-282085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-greenpoint","tag-long-island","tag-long-island-expressway","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282085","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=282085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}