{"id":332986,"date":"2026-08-30T02:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T02:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/332986\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T02:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T02:14:09","slug":"news-12-bronx-teen-charged-in-fiery-rollover-nypd-car-crash-that-wounded-2-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/332986\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Teen Charged In Fiery Rollover Nypd Car Crash That Wounded 2 Officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A 19-year-old man is facing charges for his role in an <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/2-nypd-officers-hospitalized-after-patrol-car-overturns-catches-fire-on-bruckner-expressway\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">early morning crash <\/a>that injured two NYPD officers, police say.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Gamal Ali, of the Bronx, was taken into custody Saturday. Police say Ali was driving a 2026 BMW M2 &#8211; without a valid driver&#8217;s license &#8211; when he rear-ended the police car, causing it to overturn and burst into flames.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The crash happened just after 1 a.m. Friday on the Bruckner Expressway near East 144th Street.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say two officers were rushed to a nearby hospital. They are expected to recover.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">According to the NYPD, Ali stayed at the scene of the crash.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The teen now faces multiple charges, including reckless endangerment, reckless driving and driving a motor vehicle without a valid driver&#8217;s license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 19-year-old man is facing charges for his role in an early morning crash that injured two NYPD&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-332986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332986","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=332986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}