{"id":328522,"date":"2026-08-24T17:14:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T17:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/328522\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T17:14:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T17:14:18","slug":"teen-driver-pronounced-dead-in-wantagh-motorcycle-crash-passenger-in-critical-condition-pd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/328522\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen Driver Pronounced Dead In Wantagh Motorcycle Crash, Passenger In Critical Condition: PD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York State Police said 19-year-old Astoria resident Dario Marsalek was traveling northbound on his black Suzuki motorcycle at about 5:05 p.m. Sunday, just south of Goose Neck Bridge. Marsalek\u2019s bike struck the guide rail, throwing him and a passenger from the bike , police said. <\/p>\n<p>Marsalek landed in the roadway while the passenger ended up in a grassy area along the right shoulder of the parkway, police said. Both driver and passenger were taken to a nearby hospital, police said, where Marsalek was pronounced dead while the passenger remains in critical condition. No other vehicles were involved in the crash, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York State Police said 19-year-old Astoria resident Dario Marsalek was traveling northbound on his black Suzuki motorcycle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-328522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328522","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=328522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}