On August 23, 2026, at approximately 5:05 p.m., New York State Police Troopers and members of the Bureau of Criminal Investigation (BCI) responded to the Wantagh State Parkway northbound, just South of Goose Neck Bridge for a reportedmotorcycle collision.<\/p>\n
The preliminary investigation determined that a 2014 Black Suzuki Motorcycle, operated by Dario Marsalek age 19 ofAstoria, was traveling northbound when it struck the guide rail. Marsalek and his passenger were ejected from the motorcycle.<\/p>\n
Marsalek came to rest in the roadway while the passenger came to rest on the grassy area along the right shoulder.<\/p>\n
Marsalek and the passenger were transported to a local hospital, where Marsalek was pronounced deceased. The passenger remains in critical condition at this time.<\/p>\n
No other vehicles we involved in the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On August 23, 2026, at approximately 5:05 p.m., New York State Police Troopers and members of the Bureau…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-329001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329001","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=329001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}