{"id":82585,"date":"2025-12-28T10:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T10:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/82585\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T10:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T10:06:07","slug":"car-crosses-median-crashes-through-fence-on-busy-staten-island-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/82585\/","title":{"rendered":"Car crosses median, crashes through fence on busy Staten Island road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"SYP4SB5EIJFOFJBIH7CZKW7R5M\">STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 Police responded to a single-vehicle crash just after 1 p.m. Saturday in which a driver lost traction, slid across a median and plowed into a fence, luckily evading oncoming traffic on a busy Charleston service road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"YHCFDL7PBVGKVPHUUCKC7ZRESM\">Tire tracks could be seen where a grey Jeep had crossed over the center median of Veterans Road East, the usually bustling service road for the northbound West Shore Expressway. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"P5VOMSCHCBEDHIQNHWPS2W4Y74\">The driver, who was alone in the vehicle, refused medical treatment at the scene, her husband said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"KZE3EGYTGNBVXD2EOCCZIVTMOM\">According to the driver\u2019s husband, who was not in the car: \u201cMy wife hit a patch of ice, and the car slid across the road into a fence. Nobody was injured. Nobody was in the backyard. That\u2019s the main thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Single-vehicle crash in Charleston\" class=\"article__image-content\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ZEZWEKCMBVDWDCGVQ4JIM7ORQU.jpg\"  \/>A fence is heavily damaged following a single-vehicle crash on Veterans Road East and Ambassador Lane in Charleston on Saturday, Dec. 27, 2025. (Owen Reiter for the Advance\/SILive.com)Owen Reiter<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"DGRK7WPHJRHHBOID47H5X3HFAE\">A steady stream of traffic could be seen on Veterans Road East just after the accident occurred.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"OAND5KV5OZHC5PFYMR3WVPA3WA\">\u201cThank God no cars were coming in the opposite direction when this happened,\u2019&#8217; the driver\u2019s husband said.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"low\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Single-vehicle crash in Charleston\" class=\"article__image-content\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/QL7VGDMFXRBWTBY64FZ35OHSH4.jpg\"  \/>A fence is heavily damaged following a single-vehicle crash on Veterans Road East and Ambassador Lane in Charleston on Saturday, Dec. 27, 2025. (Owen Reiter for the Advance\/SILive.com)Owen Reiter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 Police responded to a single-vehicle crash just after 1 p.m. Saturday in which a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-82585","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82585","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=82585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}