Two fatal crashes, within 24 hours, claimed the lives of two people, according to the NYPD.<\/p>\n
Early Monday morning around 12 a.m., an unidentified man driving a 2026 Audi A5 and traveling southbound on Ocean Parkway crashed into the back of a 2023 Toyota Camry at the intersection of Avenue S in Midwood.<\/p>\n
The Camry spun out of control and struck a 2021 Toyota RAV4 also traveling southbound on Ocean Parkway, according to police. Police said the 62-year-old driver of the Camry was transferred to Maimonides Medical Center and pronounced dead after the collision. A 39-year-old rear-seat passenger was also rushed to the hospital after suffering neck and back injuries.<\/p>\n
The driver of the Audi fled the scene after the crash, police said. There have been no arrests as of Monday morning.<\/p>\n
Less than a day before, a separate crash took the life of another passenger.<\/p>\n
On Sunday morning, police said five people were inside a 2022 Honda Accord driving on Grand Central Parkway near the overpass of Steinway Street. Police said the driver lost control traveling westbound around 4 a.m. The driver hit into a guardrail on the parkway, hit a light pole, then the car overturned.<\/p>\n
A 23-year-old woman, identified as Arianna Arregui, was pronounced dead after she was ejected from the vehicle, the NYPD said. The driver of the vehicle, identified as 34-year-old Anthony Dickson, was arrested and charged with vehicular manslaughter and driving while impaired.<\/p>\n
These latest deaths add to a growing list of fatal traffic accidents. So far in 2026, at least 47 people have died in fatal crashes, according to city data last updated on August 31st.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two fatal crashes, within 24 hours, claimed the lives of two people, according to the NYPD. Early Monday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-364770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364770","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=364770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}