{"id":366224,"date":"2026-10-06T21:06:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T21:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/366224\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T21:06:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T21:06:17","slug":"dashcam-shows-nyc-motorist-dodge-wrong-way-driver-by-inches-before-fiery-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/366224\/","title":{"rendered":"Dashcam shows NYC motorist dodge wrong-way driver by inches before fiery crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harrowing dashcam video shows the fiery moments after a wrong-way driver narrowly missed one motorist \u2013 but slammed into another in Manhattan early Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Footage obtained by The Post shows flames rising after the massive head-on collision on the Henry Hudson Parkway near Exit 13 and West 158th Street in Washington Heights at around 1:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The wrong-way motorist is seen lying on the ground after the smash-up, while the other driver struck in the crash remained trapped inside their vehicle, according to the witness who provided the footage.<\/p>\n<p>The driver who avoided the crash jumped in to help remove the trapped motorist \u2013 who sustained serious injuries \u2013 from the wreckage.<\/p>\n<p>Two civilians were taken to NewYork-Presbyterian\/Columbia University Irving Medical Center, and two officers were taken to Harlem Hospital, according to the FDNY.<\/p>\n<p>Their conditions are not known.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harrowing dashcam video shows the fiery moments after a wrong-way driver narrowly missed one motorist \u2013 but slammed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[254,75,57,9,56,63,65,64,58],"class_list":["post-366224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-car-crashes","tag-manhattan","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366224","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=366224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}