{"id":298350,"date":"2026-07-17T02:53:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T02:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/298350\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T02:53:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T02:53:37","slug":"man-killed-woman-critically-injured-when-scooter-crashes-into-suv-on-queens-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/298350\/","title":{"rendered":"Man killed, woman critically injured when scooter crashes into SUV on Queens highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man was killed and a woman critically injured when their motorized scooter collided with an SUV on a Queens highway Thursday, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>The two were riding on Grand Central Parkway when their scooter collided with an SUV near the Jackie Robinson Parkway around 6:30 p.m., according to law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>The crash sent both the man and woman flying from the scooter and onto the pavement, where they sustained serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The injured woman was rushed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyp.org\/locations\/queens\/nyp-queens\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NY-Presbyterian Queens Hospital<\/a> in critical condition. The man died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Police said both the scooter and the SUV were heading in the same direction when the crash occurred. It was not immediately clear who was operating the moped.<\/p>\n<p>The occupants of the SUV declined medical attention.<\/p>\n<p>There were no arrests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was killed and a woman critically injured when their motorized scooter collided with an SUV on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[3317,9,24,63,122,124,123,113504,113503],"class_list":["post-298350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-man-killed","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-scooter-crash","tag-woman-critical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298350","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=298350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}