{"id":377209,"date":"2026-10-19T20:32:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T20:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/377209\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T20:32:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T20:32:13","slug":"man-seriously-injured-in-taconic-hit-and-run-in-yorktown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/377209\/","title":{"rendered":"Man seriously injured in Taconic hit-and-run in Yorktown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBy Miranda Ferrante<\/p>\n<p>Editor<\/p>\n<p>A 47-year-old man was seriously injured in a hit-and-run crash on the Taconic State Parkway in Yorktown Friday, New York State Police said.<\/p>\n<p>At about 2:30 p.m. on Oct. 16, state police in Hawthorne observed a Ford Escape parked on the shoulder near Exit 16, with a man lying on the ground nearby.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators determined that the man had exited his vehicle when he was struck by a northbound 2026 Mazda. The Mazda left the scene, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The Yorktown Police Department later located a vehicle matching the description, with significant damage, near Exit 19. The driver was identified as Richard A. Yusufov, 29, of Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p>The victim was transported to Westchester Medical Center with serious injuries. His current condition was not revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Yusufov was charged with leaving the scene of an incident without reporting \u2014 personal injury, a Class E felony. He was released on an appearance ticket and is scheduled to appear in Yorktown Justice Court on Nov. 12 at 9:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>State police credited the Yorktown Police Department and the Westchester Real Time Center with assisting in the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>This story will be updated as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tKeywords<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tNew York State Police,\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t Yorktown Police Department,\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t Taconic State Parkway,\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t Town of Yorktown\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Miranda Ferrante Editor A 47-year-old man was seriously injured in a hit-and-run crash on the Taconic State&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50,747,32611,123897,123899],"class_list":["post-377209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-new-york-state-police","tag-taconic-state-parkway","tag-town-of-yorktown","tag-yorktown-police-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377209","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=377209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}