{"id":340177,"date":"2026-09-07T20:40:50","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T20:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/340177\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T20:40:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T20:40:50","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-woman-killed-in-fiery-single-car-crash-in-monroe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/340177\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Woman Killed In Fiery Single Car Crash In Monroe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A woman was killed during a fiery <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/westchester.news12.com\/monroe-car-crash-leaves-vehicle-engulfed-in-flames\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">single-car crash<\/a> in Monroe early Sunday morning, officials say.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Jodi Lester, 56, of Monroe, was driving a 2020 Hyundai when she veered off Cedar Cliff Road and crashed, according to New York State Police. Her car then went up in flames.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Emergency personnel responded to the scene just before 2:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Footage from the early-morning tragedy shows orange flames shooting from the Hyundai.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say firefighters extinguished the blaze and removed Lester from the car. Paramedics pronounced her dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">According to investigators, Lester was the only person inside the car at the time of the crash.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Information about what caused her to veer off the road was not immediately known.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Officials ask anyone with information to call the New York State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation in Monroe at (845) 344-5300.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman was killed during a fiery single-car crash in Monroe early Sunday morning, officials say. Jodi Lester,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-340177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340177","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=340177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}