{"id":325102,"date":"2026-08-19T17:50:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T17:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/325102\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T17:50:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T17:50:37","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-brooklyn-teen-charged-with-reckless-driving-after-crashing-into-mta-police-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/325102\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Brooklyn Teen Charged With Reckless Driving After Crashing Into Mta Police Vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A 19-year-old was arrested for crashing into an MTA police patrol car Tuesday night in Brooklyn, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">MTA officials say officers inside the MTA patrol vehicle were preparing to stop at a red light near 53rd Street and Third Avenue when they saw a vehicle speeding behind them.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The vehicle struck the patrol car, which spun and then hit a pillar. Both vehicles were towed from the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The two officers, the driver of the other vehicle and a passenger were taken to NYU Langone Brooklyn Hospital with minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police later identified the driver as 19-year-old Ethan Oyola. He has been charged with reckless endangerment, reckless driving and several other traffic offenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 19-year-old was arrested for crashing into an MTA police patrol car Tuesday night in Brooklyn, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-325102","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\/325102","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=325102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}