{"id":341711,"date":"2026-09-09T11:48:55","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T11:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/341711\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T11:48:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T11:48:55","slug":"woman-killed-as-tesla-crashes-into-midtown-scaffolding-nypd-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/341711\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman killed as Tesla crashes into Midtown scaffolding, NYPD says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/tesla-crash-midtown-42nd-street.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">NEW YORK &#8211; A driver is in custody after an overnight crash in Midtown Manhattan left a 27-year-old woman dead early Wednesday morning, according to police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   1 dead in Tesla crash, NYPD says <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The NYPD said the fatal crash happened shortly before 3 a.m. when a gray 2024 Tesla Model Y traveling eastbound on East 42nd Street struck a sidewalk shed, a bus stop and a mailbox near the intersection with Madison Avenue.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/tesla-crash-scaffolding-42nd-street.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The Tesla came to a stop near Second Avenue, investigators said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Both the driver and passenger were taken to Bellevue Hospital, where the passenger was pronounced dead, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The driver, also a 27-year-old woman, was reported to be in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">She was taken into custody and charges were pending, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Police investigating cause of crash <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The cause of the crash remains under investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The names of the driver and passenger involved have not been shared by police at this time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This article is based on information from the NYPD&#8217;s Office of the Deputy Commissioner, Public Information (DCPI), and video of the crash scene on 42nd Street.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/us\/ny\/nyc\/manhattan\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manhattan<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article NEW YORK &#8211; A driver is in custody after an overnight crash in Midtown Manhattan left a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,12,56,63,618],"class_list":["post-341711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341711","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=341711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}