{"id":327731,"date":"2026-08-23T08:58:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T08:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/327731\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T08:58:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T08:58:19","slug":"woman-dies-after-plunging-suv-long-island-swimming-pool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/327731\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman dies after plunging SUV Long Island swimming pool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman died Friday after losing control of her SUV and crashing into a backyard pool on Long Island, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The unidentified 40-year-old driver left a path of destruction in her wake, striking a tree and a parked car before plummeting into a swimming pool in Hewlett, Nassau County, officials said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.82226563;display:block\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"40468708\" width=\"485\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-22-at-71209-PM.jpg\" alt=\"Aerial view of a white SUV submerged in a swimming pool, with the trunk open.\" class=\"wp-image-40468708\"\/>A woman died after crashing an SUV into a backyard swimming pool in Long Island. NBC New York<\/p>\n<p>Authorities believe the woman was removed from the 2023 GMC SUV prior to their arrival at the home on Elinor Road near Woodside Drive.    <\/p>\n<p>It was not clear where the woman was driving to when the vehicle started careening. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A representative of the Nassau County Police Department told The Post that Officers attempted life-saving measures before she was transported to a local hospital, where she was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.56152344;display:block\" decoding=\"async\"   data-modal-image=\"40468714\" width=\"331\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Screenshot-2026-08-22-at-71354-PM.jpg\" alt=\"Aerial view of a blue car pulled over on a road shoulder with a man in a red shirt standing by the open driver's side door, and a man in a dark uniform kneeling near a bush.\" class=\"wp-image-40468714\"\/>The unidentified 40-year-old driver reportedly lost control of her 2023 GMC.. NBC New York<\/p>\n<p>The woman\u2019s cause of death has not been released.  The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman died Friday after losing control of her SUV and crashing into a backyard pool on Long&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2700,318,57,774,9,11,10,75446,58],"class_list":["post-327731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-car","tag-freak-accidents","tag-metro","tag-nassau-county","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-pools","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327731","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=327731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}