{"id":374406,"date":"2026-10-16T01:52:53","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T01:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/374406\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T01:52:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T01:52:53","slug":"woman-plows-into-queens-pizzeria-in-parking-mishap-injuring-herself-and-customer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/374406\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman plows into Queens pizzeria in parking mishap, injuring herself and customer"},"content":{"rendered":"

A parking mishap caused a woman to plow her white BMW<\/a> into a Queens pizzeria, injuring herself and a man eating inside the restaurant on Wednesday, cops said.<\/p>\n

The 68-year-old driver was trying to park her BMW when she accelerated the car and plunged front-first into New Park Pizza<\/a> on Cross Bay Blvd. near 157th Ave. in Howard Beach around 1:12 p.m., police said.<\/p>\n

A 73-year-old man dining inside was injured, suffering chest pain and a cut to his knee, cops said. He was taken to Brookdale University Hospital<\/a> with minor injuries.<\/p>\n

\"AA parking mishap led a woman to plow her white BMW into a Queens pizzeria, injuring herself and a man dining at the New Park Pizza, on Cross Bay Blvd. near 157th Ave. in Howard Beach on Thursday, Oct. 15, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

The driver sustained knee and neck pain in the crash and was taken to the same hospital, where she\u2019s expected to survive.<\/p>\n

A worker said the restaurant, which feeds hundreds of customers daily, was damaged from \u201cthe dining room to the bathroom.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A man, who was enjoying his Pizza, ended up being rushed to the Hospital with serious injuries after a man driving a white BMW SUV inexplicably smashed through the northern wall of the New Park Pizza Restaurant located at 156-71 Cross Bay Boulevard in Queens on Thursday October 15, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

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A man, who was enjoying his Pizza, ended up being rushed to the Hospital with serious injuries after a man driving a white BMW SUV inexplicably smashed through the northern wall of the New Park Pizza Restaurant located at 156-71 Cross Bay Boulevard in Queens on Thursday October 15, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

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A man, who was enjoying his Pizza, ended up being rushed to the Hospital with serious injuries after a man driving a white BMW SUV inexplicably smashed through the northern wall of the New Park Pizza Restaurant located at 156-71 Cross Bay Boulevard in Queens on Thursday October 15, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

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A man, who was enjoying his Pizza, ended up being rushed to the Hospital with serious injuries after a man driving a white BMW SUV inexplicably smashed through the northern wall of the New Park Pizza Restaurant located at 156-71 Cross Bay Boulevard in Queens on Thursday October 15, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

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A man, who was enjoying his Pizza, ended up being rushed to the Hospital with serious injuries after a man driving a white BMW SUV inexplicably smashed through the northern wall of the New Park Pizza Restaurant located at 156-71 Cross Bay Boulevard in Queens on Thursday October 15, 2026. (Theodore Parisienne \/ New York Daily News)<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt could have been a lot worse,\u201d said the 22-year-old worker, who gave his name as Joseph.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know when we\u2019re going to be open again,\u201d he added. \u201cHopefully, by this weekend we can start selling pizza again.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A parking mishap caused a woman to plow her white BMW into a Queens pizzeria, injuring herself and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,122,124,123,265],"class_list":["post-374406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374406","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=374406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}