{"id":97760,"date":"2026-01-12T20:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T20:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/97760\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T20:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T20:52:09","slug":"nyc-passenger-jumps-out-of-moving-livery-car-in-apparent-suicide-on-belt-parkway-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/97760\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC passenger jumps out of moving livery car in apparent suicide on Belt Parkway: police"},"content":{"rendered":"

A passenger in a livery vehicle died in an apparent suicide when he jumped out of an open window during a ride on the Belt Parkway in Brooklyn, cops and sources said.<\/p>\n

Rami Elsuwi, 43, was in the backseat of a Hyundai Santa Fe heading east on the parkway when he rolled down his window and shockingly climbed out of it near the 92nd Street Pedestrian Bridge around 9 p.m., the NYPD said Sunday.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe incident took place on the Belt Parkway. Rosemarie Mosteller \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n

He hit his head on a guardrail and died at the scene after suffering severe head trauma, police said.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unclear why Elsuwi, of Brooklyn, fled from the moving car, but it appears to be intentional, sources said.<\/p>\n

The driver, 69, remained at the scene. No criminality is suspected, according to sources. <\/p>\n

Sources said Elsuwi knew the driver, and commonly hired him to help him travel to different tasks, including properties he was considering buying. <\/p>\n

\"TheThe passenger died at the scene after hitting his head. Christopher Sadowski<\/p>\n

He was on his way to a property when the fatal incident occurred, sources said.<\/p>\n

Elsuwi\u2019s death comes more than a year after an Uber passenger, a 32-year-old Oyster Bay woman<\/a>, apparently jumped from a moving vehicle and was fatally hit by another vehicle on the Long Island Expressway.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Additional reporting by Amanda Woods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A passenger in a livery vehicle died in an apparent suicide when he jumped out of an open…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[10182,98,57,9,24,63,122,124,123,45194,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-97760","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-belt-parkway","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-queens","15":"tag-queens-headlines","16":"tag-queens-news","17":"tag-ride-sharing","18":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97760","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=97760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}