Recent severe crashes

1. Driver Turning Onto Union Turnpike Fatally Hits Queens Pedestrian 2026-08-25T12:00:00+00:00
   Queens
   A 56-year-old woman driving a Honda Civic hit 61-year-old Wang Jing while turning onto Union Turnpike near Main Street; Jing died at Jamaica Hospital.
   News accounts agree that a 56-year-old woman driving a Honda Civic was making a left turn onto Union Turnpike near Main Street when she hit 61-year-old Wang Jing. Emergency responders took Jing to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead. The Daily News placed the crash on Tuesday morning shortly before 8 a.m.; the Post described it as around 8 a.m. on Wednesday. Both reported that the driver stayed at the scene and that no arrests had been made.
2. Queens Scooter Rider Dies After Pothole Crash on Liberty Avenue 2026-08-24T16:00:00+00:00
   Queens
   Jaikarran Seenarian, 46, died after he was thrown from an electric stand-up scooter on Liberty Avenue near 109th Street in Queens.
   Press accounts identified the man who died as 46-year-old Jaikarran Seenarian. Witnesses told police he was thrown from an electric stand-up scooter after encountering a large pothole on Liberty Avenue near 109th Street in Richmond Hill. A restaurant worker who knew him said he had just left the New Chinese Garden of Guyana and was nearby when people rushed outside after the crash. First responders attempted CPR, but he died at the scene. City officials later described the crash as a terrible tragedy and said crews repaired that section of Liberty Avenue afterward.
3. DOT Dump-Truck Driver Fatally Hits Woman in Queens 2026-08-24T13:00:00+00:00
   Queens
   A 48-year-old DOT dump-truck driver hit Nilufar Komilova, 31, while turning at Metropolitan Avenue and Lefferts Boulevard in Kew Gardens, police said.
   A 48-year-old driver in a New York City Department of Transportation Mack dump truck was making a right turn from Metropolitan Avenue onto Lefferts Boulevard in Kew Gardens shortly before 9 a.m. on March 10 when he hit Nilufar Komilova, 31, police said. EMS pronounced Komilova dead at the scene. A family friend said she had just taken her seven-year-old daughter to school and was walking home about two blocks from her apartment. The driver remained at the scene, and police said the investigation was continuing.
4. Senior dies after bus-stop collision in Elmhurst 2026-08-13T18:00:00+00:00
   Queens
   Wayne Silverman, 70, died after a collision involving an arriving MTA Q52 bus at Hoffman Drive and Woodhaven Boulevard, QNS reported.
   QNS reported that police responded just before 2 p.m. to Hoffman Drive and Woodhaven Boulevard in Elmhurst, where Wayne Silverman was found in the roadway after a collision involving an MTA Q52 bus. EMS took him to Elmhurst Hospital, where he died a short time later. Investigators said Silverman had been seated on a rollator walker at the bus stop and lost his balance as an MTA Q52 articulated bus was arriving. Police said the Q52 driver remained at the scene, no arrests had been made, and no criminality was suspected while the investigation continued.
5. Motorcyclist dies after LIE ramp crash in Maspeth 2026-08-08T16:00:00+00:00
   Queens
   Police said David Rivera, 49, lost control while riding on the right shoulder of the eastbound LIE outer roadway ramp in Maspeth and died at the scene.
   Police told QNS that David Rivera, a 49-year-old Marlboro man, was riding a Suzuki GSX-R750 east on the Long Island Expressway outer roadway ramp, east of 69th Street in Maspeth, on the morning of Aug. 8, 2026. Investigators said Rivera was traveling on the right shoulder when he struck a metal sewer grate, lost control and collided with a barrier wall. Officers found him on the roadway with a serious head injury, and EMS pronounced him dead at the scene. NYPD’s Collision Investigation Squad was still investigating, and no arrests had been made, QNS reported.