Crash Count for Queens CB82
Crashes: Collisions involving cars, bikes, and pedestrians. 513
All Injuries: Any injury from a reported crash. 418
Moderate: Broken bones, concussions, and other serious injuries. 44
Serious: Life-altering injuries: amputations, paralysis, severe trauma. 3
Deaths: Lives lost to traffic violence. 4
Data from Jan 1, 2022 to Dec 4, 2025
Carnage in CB 482
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▸ Killed 4
+1
▸ Crush Injuries 1
Whole body 1
▸ Severe Lacerations 1
Lower leg/foot 1
▸ Whiplash 10
Neck 7
+2
Head 2
Shoulder/upper arm 1
Whole body 1
▸ Contusion/Bruise 9
Lower leg/foot 3
Head 2
Neck 2
Back 1
Face 1
▸ Abrasion 5
Lower leg/foot 2
Face 1
Lower arm/hand 1
Shoulder/upper arm 1
▸ Pain/Nausea 3
Back 2
Neck 1
Data from Jan 1, 2022 to Dec 4, 2025

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Preventable Speeding in CB 482 School Zones

(since 2022)
17,016 6+
5,736 16+
Queens CB82: Woodhaven deaths, parkway wrecks, and a clock that won’t stop

Queens CB82: Woodhaven deaths, parkway wrecks, and a clock that won’t stop

Queens CB82: Jan 1, 2022 - Aug 25, 2025

The road does not forgive here. It records.

Two seniors died on Woodhaven Boulevard. A driver going straight hit them both, southbound, not at an intersection. The record lists a 71‑year‑old woman and a 73‑year‑old man. Both died at the scene. The cars kept going south. The case sits in the ledger as CrashID 4680207. Two sedans. Two pedestrians. Two deaths.

On the parkway, the metal toll keeps coming. A 28‑year‑old motorcyclist was killed eastbound on the Jackie Robinson. Changing lanes is the last note before impact. It’s logged as CrashID 4752246. Another rider died at 83‑35 Woodhaven Boulevard. A 23‑year‑old woman. The record says the motorcycle hit her in the crosswalk at night. It’s CrashID 4808010.

The clock on this map runs hot after dark. Injuries crest at 7 p.m. and again at the 4 p.m. rush, but the bodies pile up late. One death hits at 2 a.m., one at 10 a.m., and two more at 8 p.m., per the city’s counts.

Woodhaven and the parkway are the killing fields. Since 2022, the Jackie Robinson shows 238 injuries and one death in this board, the worst hotspot by far. Woodhaven shows two deaths and eight injuries. Both are flagged in the city data.

“Joseph Lee terrorized other drivers,” the Queens DA said of a wrong‑way rampage on the Clearview Expressway across the borough line. He later told police he entered the highway “in the wrong direction because I wanted to hurt people.” The courts gave him eight years. The quotes are on the record in amNY. Different road. Same city.

Speed is a quiet undertow in these files. The Woodhaven pedestrian deaths list straight‑line travel. The parkway logs are full of rear‑ends and lane changes. In this board since 2022: four deaths, 316 injuries. Pedestrians account for three deaths and 12 injuries. Occupants bear the bulk of the hurt. The pattern is not subtle.

Night after night, the numbers come back. Repeat hotspots. Repeat harm.

Woodhaven takes lives

Two pedestrians dead, southbound traffic, off the crosswalk. It’s all there in CrashID 4680207. A Toyota sedan, New Jersey plates. A BMW sedan behind it. Center front damage. The city marks Woodhaven as a top location.

This board shows pedestrians killed more than cyclists. Three pedestrian deaths. Zero cyclist deaths. People on foot have thin margins here.

The parkway grinds people up

Jackie Robinson Parkway is the board’s worst corridor by injuries: 238 injured and one death since 2022. The logs show chain crashes, rear‑ends, and lane changes, like the fatal motorcycle collision in CrashID 4752246. Another multi‑car crash on August 4, 2022 put a driver in the hospital with severe burns, recorded as CrashID 4552460.

The time of day matters. Deaths concentrate at night around 2 a.m. and 8 p.m. Injuries spike again near the evening rush.

What would stop the next body?

Start where people are dying:

  • On Woodhaven and Forest Park Drive, cut turns and visibility hazards with daylighting and hardened corners. Add leading intervals. These are standard tools the city uses.
  • On Jackie Robinson Parkway, target the recurring rear‑ends and lane‑change crashes with speed management and consistent enforcement at the known bends and merges.
  • Hit the repeat hotspots at night. The board’s own data points to evening and late‑night patterns.

Citywide, the fix is bigger than one board. Albany passed the tools to slow cars and rein in repeat offenders. The Senate advanced a bill to force chronic violators to install speed limiters; Senator Addabbo voted yes in committee on S 4045 on June 11 and 12, 2025. In the Assembly, Andrew Hevesi co‑sponsored matching bills in 2023 and 2025.

Albany also renewed round‑the‑clock school‑zone cameras through 2030, according to contemporaneous coverage. Locally, the council has a mixed record: Council Member Joann Ariola voted against expanding speed cameras in 2022, as documented by Streetsblog NYC.

Lower speeds save lives. Limit the worst drivers. Then the numbers fall.

Take one step now. Tell City Hall and Albany to act. Start here: take action.

Citations

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Other Representatives

Andrew Hevesi
Assembly Member Andrew Hevesi
District 28
Email: hevesia@nyassembly.gov
District Office:
70-50 Austin St. Suite 114, Forest Hills, NY 11375
Legislative Office:
Room 626, Legislative Office Building, Albany, NY 12248
Twitter: @AM_AndrewHevesi
Joann Ariola
Council Member Joann Ariola
District 32
Email: District32@council.nyc.gov
District Office:
114-12 Beach Channel Drive, Suite 1, Rockaway Park, NY 11694
718-318-6411
Legislative Office:
250 Broadway, Suite 1550, New York, NY 10007
212-788-7382
Twitter: @JoannAriola32
Joe Addabbo
State Senator Joe Addabbo
District 15
Email: addabbo@nysenate.gov
District Office:
66-85 73rd Place, Middle Village, NY 11379
Legislative Office:
Room 811, Legislative Office Building, Albany, NY 12247
▸ Other Geographies

Queens CB82 Queens Community Board 82 sits in Queens, Precinct 102, District 32, AD 28, SD 15.

It contains Forest Park.

▸ See also
Boroughs
Queens
City Council Districts
District 29 District 32
Neighborhoods
Kew Gardens Forest Park
State_assembly_districts
AD 28 AD 38
State Senate Districts
SD 14 SD 15

Traffic Safety Timeline for Queens Community Board 82

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68-year-old father of 5 struck, killed by moped driver in Queens
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NYPD needs to quash violent car-meetup ‘street takeovers’ IMMEDIATELY
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2 MTA buses crash in Flushing, Queens, 19 injured
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Driver reaction injures passenger on Jackie Robinson Parkway
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Oct 1 - Westbound on Jackie Robinson Parkway in Queens. A driver went straight and crashed. A 25-year-old front-seat passenger was hurt. Police recorded reaction to an uninvolved vehicle by the driver.

A driver in a 2019 Toyota sedan was traveling west on Jackie Robinson Parkway in Queens around 8:30 p.m. while going straight. The driver was involved in a crash. A 25-year-old front-seat passenger was injured. According to the police report, police recorded reaction to an uninvolved vehicle by the driver. Two people were in the car. The report lists a front impact. The driver is listed as licensed in New York. No pedestrians or cyclists were involved in this crash. The passenger took the injuries. The data offer no further details.

  • Motor Vehicle Collisions – CrashID 4846661 - Crashes, Persons, Vehicles , NYC Open Data, Accessed 2025-12-08
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Boy, 15, driving SUV on LIE, rear-ends motorcyclist in deadly Queens collision: NYPD
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Queens DA: Motorist arraigned after hit-and-run collision that left on-duty construction worker dead on Nassau Expressway
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Female construction worker killed on Queens job site, hit-and-run driver arrested
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Woman killed by hit-and-run driver while directing traffic around Van Wyck Expressway construction project: NYPD
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Nude Queens man indicted for kicking bike riders, attacking 3 NYPD officers
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Man accused of intentionally killing Queens teen with his car
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Shocking video shows moment NYC drunken maniac driver mows down girl, 16, who rejected his lewd advances
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Two child passengers hurt on Jackie Robinson Parkway
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Sep 14 - Four westbound drivers collided on Jackie Robinson Parkway in Queens. Two girl passengers, ages 1 and 2, were hurt. A 40-year-old driver was also injured. Police listed contributing factors for the drivers as unspecified.

According to the police report, westbound drivers in a Ford sedan and three SUVs—Audi, Nissan, and Volvo—collided on Jackie Robinson Parkway in Queens. Two girl passengers, ages 2 and 1, were injured. The 2-year-old had a neck bruise. The 1-year-old was hurt with no visible injury noted. A 40-year-old male driver suffered minor bleeding to the lower leg. Other drivers and passengers were listed as uninjured or with no injury reported. The report recorded center back-end damage on three vehicles and center front-end damage on one, with all drivers traveling straight. Police did not record a specific driver error; contributing factors for the involved drivers were listed as “Unspecified.” Passengers, including two children, bore the harm.

  • Motor Vehicle Collisions – CrashID 4842861 - Crashes, Persons, Vehicles , NYC Open Data, Accessed 2025-12-08
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16-year-old girl struck and killed in Queens
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Video appears to show children operating NYC subway with transit employee
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Queens bus network redesign faces 1st weekday commute
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Int 1362-2025 Ariola co-sponsors bill removing bus and bike benchmarks from streets master plan.
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Aug 14 - Int 1362 repeals the definitions of “protected bicycle lane” and “protected bus lane” and strips explicit benchmarks for protected lanes from the streets master plan. It preserves signal and pedestrian targets but weakens commitments to physical protection, threatening safety and equity.

Bill Int 1362-2025. Status: Sponsorship, introduced Aug 14, 2025. Referred to Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. The measure, titled "A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to removing benchmarks for bus lanes and bicycle lanes from the streets master plan and repealing certain definitions in relation thereto," repeals the definitions of "protected bicycle lane" and "protected bus lane" and removes related benchmarks in the master plan (master plan dates referenced include Dec. 1, 2021 and Dec. 1, 2026). Primary sponsor: Robert F. Holden. Co-sponsors: Inna Vernikov, Joann Ariola, Chris Banks, Vickie Paladino. Safety analysts warn: "Removing explicit benchmarks and definitions for protected bus and bicycle lanes weakens commitments to physically protected infrastructure... likely reducing mode shift to walking and cycling and worsening equity and safety-in-numbers; the retained measures focus on signals and pedestrian amenities but do not replace the protective effect of designated protected lanes."

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Int 1362-2025 Ariola co-sponsors bill to remove bus and bike lane benchmarks, no safety impact.
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Aug 14 - Int 1362 strips definitions for protected bus and bike lanes and removes benchmarks from the streets master plan. It guts measurable targets. Safe space for pedestrians and cyclists is at risk. The city could slow needed separated infrastructure.

Bill: Int. No. 1362 (Int 1362-2025). Status: SPONSORSHIP. Committee: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Event date: 2025-08-14. The matter reads: "A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to removing benchmarks for bus lanes and bicycle lanes from the streets master plan and repealing certain definitions in relation thereto." Council Member Robert F. Holden is the primary sponsor. Joann Ariola and Vickie Paladino are co-sponsors. The draft repeals the definitions of "protected bicycle lane" and "protected bus lane" and removes explicit benchmarks tied to transit signal priority, bus stop upgrades, accessible pedestrian signals and intersection redesigns. Removing those benchmarks weakens commitments to high‑quality separated infrastructure and measurable mode‑shift targets, likely slowing deployment of safe space for pedestrians and cyclists and undermining equitable street redesigns.

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Int 1362-2025 Ariola co-sponsors bill to remove bus and bike lane benchmarks, no safety impact.
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Aug 14 - Int. No. 1362 strips city definitions and benchmarks for protected bicycle lanes and protected bus lanes. It removes targets and accountability. The change will slow deployment of separated bike and bus infrastructure and erode safety and equity for pedestrians and cyclists.

Int. No. 1362 (filed Aug. 14, 2025; stage: SPONSORSHIP) was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. The matter is titled "A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to removing benchmarks for bus lanes and bicycle lanes and repealing certain definitions in relation thereto." Council Member Robert F. Holden is the primary sponsor. Co-sponsors are Vickie Paladino, Joann Ariola, and Inna Vernikov. The bill repeals the definitions of "protected bicycle lane" and "protected bus lane" and removes benchmark requirements from the streets master plan. Safety analysts note that removing explicit benchmarks and definitions weakens accountability for building separated cycling and bus infrastructure, likely decreasing street equity and safety-in-numbers for pedestrians and cyclists.

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Queens Crash Kills Two Pedestrians, Driver
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Aug 13 - A car jumped the curb in Astoria. Metal, blood, and bodies scattered. Two men waiting by a food cart died. The 84-year-old driver, warned not to drive, died too. The street bore the mark of violence.

amNY reported on August 13, 2025, that an 84-year-old driver lost control of his Toyota in Astoria, Queens, killing himself and two men at a food cart. The driver had suffered a stroke two weeks before and was told by his doctor not to drive. Police said the car 'careened at a high speed into a nearby food truck, ramming into two men.' The crash left the street littered with debris and body parts. The incident highlights gaps in monitoring medically unfit drivers and the dangers posed to pedestrians by unchecked vehicle access.

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Car Plows Into Queens Food Truck
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Aug 12 - A car slammed into a food truck in Astoria. Three people died. Metal twisted. Lives ended. The street became a scene of sudden loss.

CBS New York reported on August 12, 2025, that a car crashed into a food truck at 19th Avenue and 42nd Street in Astoria, Queens, killing three people. The article quotes witnesses, including a man who 'narrowly escaped tragedy.' Details on the driver's actions remain scarce, but the crash highlights the lethal risk vehicles pose to people on city streets. The incident raises questions about street design and the exposure of workers and customers at curbside businesses.