{"id":322550,"date":"2026-08-16T14:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T14:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/322550\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T14:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T14:50:08","slug":"queens-hit-and-run-leaves-man-in-critical-condition-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/322550\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens hit-and-run leaves man in critical condition: cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"714\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-16-at-9.21.23-AM.jpg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"Screenshot 2026-08-16 at 9.21.23\u202fAM\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   title=\"Queens hit-and-run leaves man in critical condition: cops 1\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Cops are on the hunt for a driver Sunday after they struck a man in Queens and left him for dead during the early hours of the morning.<\/p>\n<p>Google StreetView<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Cops are on the hunt for a driver who struck a man in Queens and left him for dead early Sunday morning.\n<\/p>\n<p>According to police sources, the incident occurred at around 3:11 a.m. at the intersection of Jamaica Avenue and 186 Street in Jamaica. A 37-year-old pedestrian was walking southbound on the 186 Street eastern crosswalk to Jamaica Avenue when the driver of a black vehicle mowed him down.<\/p>\n<p>A 911 caller alerted cops from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/site\/nypd\/bureaus\/patrol\/precincts\/103rd-precinct.page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">103rd Precinct<\/a> and paramedics that a man had been seriously injured in a collision. EMS rushed the injured man to Jamaica Hospital, where he remains in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the driver did not wait for authorities to arrive and fled eastbound on Jamaica Avenue and then southbound on Hollis Avenue.\n<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made and the investigation remains ongoing by the NYPD\u2019s Highway District\u2019s Collision Investigation Squad.\n<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding this incident can call Crime Stoppers at 800-577-TIPS (for Spanish, dial 888-57-PISTA). You can also submit tips online at <a href=\"https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">crimestoppers.nypdonline.org<\/a>, or on X (formerly Twitter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypdtips\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">@NYPDTips<\/a>. All calls and messages are kept confidential.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cops are on the hunt for a driver Sunday after they struck a man in Queens and left&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[107641,303,473,9,24,63,103,104,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-322550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-103-pct","tag-crime","tag-hit-and-run","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-police","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322550","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=322550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}