{"id":341927,"date":"2026-09-09T16:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T16:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/341927\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T16:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T16:22:08","slug":"woman-killed-after-tesla-driver-wildly-crashes-into-midtown-nyc-scaffolding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/341927\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman killed after Tesla driver wildly crashes into Midtown NYC scaffolding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 27-year-old woman was was killed in Midtown early Wednesday when the driver of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/07\/30\/woman-riding-e-scooter-dies-in-uws-crash-involving-tesla\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tesla<\/a> she was riding in crashed into scaffolding, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/site\/nypd\/services\/vehicles-property\/faq-for-critical-fatal-injury-collisions.page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">police<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>The woman driving the car, also 27, was arrested and is hospitalized. Charges against her are pending.<\/p>\n<p>The fatal crash happened at 2:43 a.m. at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/07\/29\/partial-stop-work-order-issued-for-midtown-high-rise-in-wake-of-e-42nd-st-near-collapse\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">E. 42nd St.<\/a> and Madison Ave.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the driver, heading east, lost control of her car and crashed into scaffolding and a bus stop near the intersection, then continued four blocks before finally stopping at Second Ave.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t clear if speed was a factor in the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 27-year-old woman was was killed in Midtown early Wednesday when the driver of the Tesla she was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[128277,128278,125975,22777,3412,9,56,63,65,64,103,128276],"class_list":["post-341927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-car-passenger-killed","tag-e-42nd-st","tag-fatal-car-crash","tag-madison-ave","tag-midtown-manhattan","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-nypd","tag-tesla-crash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341927","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=341927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}