{"id":370356,"date":"2026-10-11T14:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T14:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/370356\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T14:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T14:12:08","slug":"pedestrian-left-fighting-for-his-life-after-queens-hit-and-run-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/370356\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian left fighting for his life after Queens hit-and-run: cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1200\" height=\"911\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot-2026-07-14-at-9.29.29-AM.jpg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"police officers investigate a shooting scene in the dark where a man was shot\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   title=\"Pedestrian left fighting for his life after Queens hit-and-run: cops 1\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>FILE \u2013 Police investigate a crime scene<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Lloyd Mitchell <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/new-york\/queens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Queens<\/a> pedestrian is fighting for his life after being struck by a hit-and-run driver early Sunday morning.\n<\/p>\n<p>According to police sources, the incident unfolded at around 1:51 a.m. near 184 St. and Jamaica Avenue. A 54-year-old man was crossing from the northwest to the southwest corner on Jamaica Avenue when the driver of a gray Ford Crown Victoria traveling eastbound struck the pedestrian. He was sent hurtling into the roadway and suffered what cops describe as severe trauma to his head and body.<\/p>\n<p>EMS rushed him to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, where he remains fighting for his life in critical condition.\n<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the driver did not remain on scene and instead fled eastbound on Jamaica Avenue.\n<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made. The investigation remains ongoing by the NYPD Highway District Investigation Squad.\n<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding this hit-and-run can call Crime Stoppers at 800-577-TIPS (for Spanish, dial 888-57-PISTA). You can also submit tips online at <a href=\"https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">crimestoppers.nypdonline.org<\/a>, or on X (formerly Twitter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypdtips\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">@NYPDTips<\/a>. All calls and messages are kept confidential.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FILE \u2013 Police investigate a crime scene Photo by Lloyd Mitchell &#13; &#13; A Queens pedestrian is fighting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[303,473,9,24,63,103,104,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-370356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-crime","tag-hit-and-run","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-police","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370356","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=370356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}