{"id":364760,"date":"2026-10-05T13:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T13:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/364760\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T13:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T13:05:07","slug":"man-killed-passenger-critically-injured-in-brooklyn-crash-as-cops-hunt-driver-who-fled-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/364760\/","title":{"rendered":"Man killed, passenger critically injured in Brooklyn crash as cops hunt driver who fled scene"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man was killed early Monday and his passenger left critically injured following a three vehicle crash in Brooklyn \u2013 as cops hunt for a driver who fled the scene.<\/p>\n

The man, 62, was behind the wheel of a 2023 Toyota Camry when it was rear-ended by an Audi A5 at around 12:10 a.m. on Ocean Parkway, cops told The Post.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Camry then went into a spin and struck a 2021 Toyota RAV 4 before both vehicles collided into the trees.<\/p>\n

One man was killed and a passenger critically injured following a car crash in Brooklyn early Monday. Robert Mecea for New York Post<\/p>\n

The 62-year-old Camry driver was rushed to Maimonides Medical Center where he was pronounced dead, while his passenger, a 39-year-old woman, was critically injured having sustained neck and back injuries, police said, without identifying the victims.<\/p>\n

NYPD confirmed the RAV 4 driver, 25, sustained minor injuries, while the Audi driver fled the scene.<\/p>\n

Witnesses said several people were inside the Audi at the time of the collision, according to WABC.<\/a><\/p>\n

No arrests have been made.<\/p>\n

Police on scene investigating the crash on Ocean Parkway. Robert Mecea for New York Post<\/p>\n

The impact of the crash saw two cars collide into the trees. Robert Mecea for New York Post<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was killed early Monday and his passenger left critically injured following a three vehicle crash in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,254,303,1015,57,9,24,63,58],"class_list":["post-364760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-car-crashes","tag-crime","tag-deaths","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364760","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=364760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}