{"id":367191,"date":"2026-10-07T20:56:45","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T20:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/367191\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T20:56:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T20:56:45","slug":"brooklyn-man-charged-with-vehicular-manslaughter-in-fatal-astoria-collision-nypd-qns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/367191\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn man charged with vehicular manslaughter in fatal Astoria collision: NYPD \u2013 QNS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A Brooklyn driver was charged with vehicular manslaughter and driving under the influence after he lost control of his car on the Grand Central Parkway in Astoria and crashed, ejecting a passenger who later died at Elmhurst Hospital. <\/p>\n

File photo by Lloyd Mitchell <\/p>\n

A Brooklyn man is accused of driving under the influence when he crashed his car on the Grand Central Parkway in Astoria<\/a> killing his friend and neighbor who was ejected from his vehicle on the morning of Sunday, Oct. 4. <\/p>\n

Anthony Dickson, 34, of Aberdeen Street in Bushwick, was arrested and booked at the 114th Precinct<\/a> where he was charged with vehicular manslaughter for causing the death of 23-year-old Arianna Arregui, on Eldert Street in Bushwick.<\/p>\n

Dickson was arraigned on Monday in Queens Criminal Court on a criminal complaint charging him with vehicular manslaughter in the second degree, criminally negligent homicide, and operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or drugs.<\/p>\n

The NYPD Highway District\u2019s Collision Investigation Squad determined that Dickson was behind the wheel of a 2022 gray Honda Accord traveling eastbound in the left lane of the Grand Central Parkway just after 4 a.m. when he failed to navigate the roadway near the Steinway Street overpass. His vehicle\u2019s left rear wheel struck the left curb line dividing the highway, causing Dickson to lose control. The vehicle went into a spin and skidded off the roadway into a grassy area and then overturned and struck down a light pole. Arregui, who was a passenger in the middle rear seat of Dickson\u2019s car, was ejected. <\/p>\n

EMS responded to the scene of the crash and rushed Arregui to Elmhurst Hospital with severe head and body trauma, where she was pronounced dead.\n<\/p>\n

Dickson remained at the scene of the crash and told a cop from the 114th Precinct that he was the driver of the wrecked 2022 Honda Accord. A police officer assigned to the Highway District\u2019s Collision Investigation Squad Tech Group arrived at the scene just after 5 a.m. and observed Dickson to be in an impaired condition in that he had slurred speech, bloodshot and watery eyes, and displayed other signs of inebriation. The officer said that Dickson was administered a Drager drug test at the scene that tested positive for THC, according to the criminal complaint. When a police officer from Highway Unit 3 requested a urine test from Dickson, the defendant stated, \u201cI mean I\u2019m going to have weed in my system. I smoke weed,\u201d according to the complaint.<\/p>\n

Dickson was arraigned before Queens Criminal Court Judge Thomas G. Wright who set bail at $30,000 cash and $100.000 bond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Brooklyn driver was charged with vehicular manslaughter and driving under the influence after he lost control of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[40918,135847,135848,98,100,99,65287,33730,8939,9,24,63,28955],"class_list":["post-367191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-114th-precinct","tag-anthony-dickson","tag-arianna-arregui","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-driving-under-the-influence","tag-fatal-collision","tag-fatal-crash","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd-highway-districts-collision-investigation-squad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367191","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=367191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}