{"id":317416,"date":"2026-08-09T23:42:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T23:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/317416\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T23:42:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T23:42:17","slug":"crash-reported-on-verrazzano-bridge-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/317416\/","title":{"rendered":"Crash reported on Verrazzano Bridge Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"articleLabel__link\" class=\"articleLabel__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.silive.com\/crime-safety\/\" title=\"Navigate to Crime &amp; Safety\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime &amp; Safety<\/a>Published: Aug. 09, 2026, 11:02 a.m.Set as Google Preferred Source<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"S3NNTDLCIJDSTBMZVDGEDCNPH4\">STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 A crash was reported on the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge early Sunday morning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"KOSX24T5RBC6ZFYW4C2KZQSGUY\">The crash was first reported around 6 a.m. on the upper level of the Staten Island-bound side of the bridge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"E7YTL4DUPBCBRK2OO4IMKZVKGI\">The crash happened on the center span of the bridge and two of the right-hand lanes were closed, according to an alert from 511NY.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"745HJDU3GBEXBL63WAGJB62RKU\">Although unconfirmed, three vehicles were reported to be involved in the crash, according to emergency transmissions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"DNVD4APN3ZA2LK237RTSMD43WM\">No injuries were reported, according to emergency transmissions, and an FDNY spokesperson said the department was not needed at the scene of the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Matteo covers breaking and trending news for the Staten Island Advance\/SILive.com. Matteo, a Staten Island native, graduated from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY in 2023 with a&#8230; more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crime &amp; SafetyPublished: Aug. 09, 2026, 11:02 a.m.Set as Google Preferred Source STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 A crash&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135,111551],"class_list":["post-317416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news","tag-the-top-photos-of-the-day-by-ap-photojournalists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317416","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=317416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}