{"id":336379,"date":"2026-09-02T22:38:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T22:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/336379\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T22:38:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T22:38:46","slug":"parks-officer-injured-when-atv-flips-during-queens-traffic-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/336379\/","title":{"rendered":"Parks officer injured when ATV flips during Queens traffic stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Parks officer was hospitalized while trying to make a traffic stop at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/gate\/learn\/historyculture\/fort-tilden.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fort Tilden<\/a> in the Rockaways when his all-terrain vehicle overturned Wednesday, according to law enforcement sources.<\/p>\n<p>The officer\u2019s ATV flipped as he tried to pull over dirt bikers near Fort Tilden Chapel inside the national park in Breezy Point around 2:30 p.m., police sources and FDNY officials said.<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately disclosed if the officer was a National Park Service employee or worked for New York state.<\/p>\n<p>The officer was taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, according to fire officials.<\/p>\n<p>Fort Tilden is the site of a former U.S. Army installation that was established as Camp Rockaway Beach shortly after the United States entered World War I in 1917.<\/p>\n<p>The area is currently listed on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/aclk?sa=L&amp;pf=1&amp;ai=DChsSEwjoqo7E6dCWAxWaSv8BHWPGEj4YACICCAEQABoCbWQ&amp;co=1&amp;ase=2&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQjwkt_UBhDMARIsALpnOAwrvEY3O9SGLjqeHC_SGRaQSupv5_7hdtpISDucWdhePqsCL7-qo3AaAnxtEALw_wcB&amp;ei=9pKYatP1PPyvptQP7_yggAQ&amp;cid=CAASZeRoLKMeECQ77GzBBCjmRcdMWzQDtVbF9Tzq1xec6y8TnPEI1I5vTVH9Tbwgu8nwLHLnnfUfIln9xe4w0RTIOx7uqPZ_2t2rKScYFqe-72gQfW8LGWo7mkQpeOxrn726k2no9okM&amp;cce=2&amp;category=acrcp_v1_32&amp;sig=AOD64_3Ou29Kr5zxQPtbcD8XP9e_Aw6WoA&amp;q&amp;sqi=2&amp;nis=4&amp;adurl=https:\/\/savingplaces.org\/story-categories\/national-register-guide-stories?gad_source%3D1%26gad_campaignid%3D324585972%26gbraid%3D0AAAAAD3cOxIj1iDPeoTgJFz2T6RlLbFIb%26gclid%3DCj0KCQjwkt_UBhDMARIsALpnOAwrvEY3O9SGLjqeHC_SGRaQSupv5_7hdtpISDucWdhePqsCL7-qo3AaAnxtEALw_wcB&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjTyIXE6dCWAxX8l4kEHW8-CEAQ0Qx6BAgYEAE\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">National Register of Historic Places<\/a> and forms part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/GATE\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gateway National Recreation Area<\/a>, with a theater and hiking trails featured alongside the fort\u2019s coastal\u00a0batteries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Parks officer was hospitalized while trying to make a traffic stop at Fort Tilden in the Rockaways&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[94060,9,24,63,122,124,123,23565],"class_list":["post-336379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-fort-tilden","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-rockaways"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336379","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=336379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}