Recent severe crashes

1. Overnight Queens crash kills 30‑year‑old rider 2025-09-26T00:44:00+00:00
   LONG ISLAND EXPRESSWAY
   On the Long Island Expressway, SUV drivers and a 30-year-old motorcyclist collided overnight in Queens. The rider was ejected and killed in the multi-vehicle crash, which also involved a parked sedan.
   According to the police report, a 30-year-old man riding a motorcycle west on the Long Island Expressway in Queens collided with drivers of two SUVs and a parked sedan around 12:44 a.m. The rider was ejected and died from head injuries described as crush injuries. The report states all three moving vehicles were traveling straight westbound before impact and lists no specific contributing factors for any party.
2. Truck Driver’s Lane Trap Kills Young Rider 2025-07-24T15:46:00+00:00
   LONG ISLAND EXPRESSWAY
   A 24-year-old motorcyclist changing lanes on the Long Island Expressway hit a tractor-trailer and died. An SUV driver was also caught in the chain of impact. Another young body gone to truck traffic on Queens asphalt.
   A 24-year-old motorcyclist died after a multivehicle crash on the Long Island Expressway in Queens. According to the police report, the rider was changing lanes westbound when he hit the side of a westbound tractor-trailer, then an SUV. He was ejected and suffered fatal crush injuries to his entire body. Police listed the truck as an oversized vehicle. No other occupants were reported injured in the crash.
3. Speeding SUV Driver Kills Himself on 90th Ave 2025-01-21T05:38:00+00:00
   90 AVE
   Before dawn on 90th Avenue, a 63-year-old SUV driver tore into a parked sedan. Police recorded unsafe speed. He died alone in the crushed SUV on a quiet Queens block.
   According to the police report, a 63-year-old licensed man driving an SUV east on 90th Avenue near 143rd Street hit a parked sedan at 5:38 a.m. Police recorded unsafe speed by the driver. The impact collapsed the sedan’s roof. The driver, the only person in the SUV, was killed. The parked sedan was unoccupied. The crash happened overnight in below-freezing temperatures.
4. Driver blows lane, crushes Queens pedestrian 2025-11-28T19:02:00+00:00
   163-08 HILLSIDE AVE
   A driver cut lanes on Hillside Avenue and hit a 59-year-old woman crossing with the signal. She went into shock as her head bled in the evening dark.
   According to the police report, a driver in a sedan headed east near 163-08 Hillside Avenue in Queens and hit a 59-year-old woman who was crossing with the signal outside an intersection. The impact caused a head injury with severe bleeding, and officers noted she went into shock. Police recorded improper lane usage and unsafe speed by the driver as contributing factors.
5. Distracted Queens drivers crush backseat woman 2025-11-24T14:10:00+00:00
   GRAND CENTRAL PARKWAY
   Two southbound sedan drivers crashed head-on off Grand Central Parkway. A 58-year-old woman riding in the right rear seat took chest crush injuries while both licensed drivers looked anywhere but the road.
   Two male drivers in southbound sedans crashed head-on near Midland Parkway off Grand Central Parkway in Queens on a clear Monday afternoon. According to the police report, a 58-year-old woman riding in the right rear seat suffered crush injuries to her chest and was recorded as injured. Police recorded driver inattention or distraction as the contributing factor for both licensed drivers, with no other causes listed.