Crash Count for Rego Park
Crashes: Collisions involving cars, bikes, and pedestrians. 1,079
All Injuries: Any injury from a reported crash. 592
Moderate: Broken bones, concussions, and other serious injuries. 114
Serious: Life-altering injuries: amputations, paralysis, severe trauma. 9
Deaths: Lives lost to traffic violence. 6
Data from Jan 1, 2022 to Nov 8, 2025
Carnage in Rego Park
Detailed breakdowns aren’t yet available for this year slice; totals below reflect the selected window.
Killed 5
Crush Injuries 3
Lower leg/foot 2
Shoulder/upper arm 1
Severe Bleeding 5
Head 2
Face 1
Lower arm/hand 1
Lower leg/foot 1
Severe Lacerations 1
Head 1
Concussion 2
Head 1
Lower leg/foot 1
Whiplash 25
Neck 15
+10
Head 8
+3
Back 3
Chest 1
Shoulder/upper arm 1
Contusion/Bruise 20
Lower leg/foot 8
+3
Back 3
Head 3
Shoulder/upper arm 2
Abdomen/pelvis 1
Face 1
Hip/upper leg 1
Lower arm/hand 1
Neck 1
Abrasion 14
Lower leg/foot 6
+1
Face 3
Lower arm/hand 2
Shoulder/upper arm 2
Head 1
Whole body 1
Pain/Nausea 9
Shoulder/upper arm 2
Whole body 2
Abdomen/pelvis 1
Back 1
Eye 1
Head 1
Lower leg/foot 1
Data from Jan 1, 2022 to Nov 8, 2025

Who’s Injuring and Killing Pedestrians in Rego Park?

Preventable Speeding in Rego Park School Zones

(since 2022)
Rego Park’s daily toll: bikes, bodies, and the boulevard

Rego Park’s daily toll: bikes, bodies, and the boulevard

Rego Park: Jan 1, 2022 - Aug 24, 2025

Another driver. Same ending.

  • In March, a 23-year-old bicyclist was killed at Queens Boulevard and 63rd Drive. The data lists “traffic control disregarded” and “driver inattention.” The rider died at the scene. The SUV and sedan had front-end damage. One man on a bike did not get up. NYC Open Data shows it as CrashID 4799953.
  • In April, a 55-year-old motorcyclist was killed at Woodhaven Boulevard and 60 Drive. Ejected. Apparent death. Three vehicles listed. CrashID 4803498 in city data.
  • In July, a 24-year-old motorcyclist died on the Long Island Expressway. Changing lanes. Ejected. Apparent death. Three vehicles. CrashID 4830329 in the same dataset.

The neighborhood count is blunt. Since 2022, Rego Park logged 826 crashes, 455 injuries, and 4 deaths. Pedestrians were hit mostly by sedans and SUVs. Bikes were hit too. That’s in the rollups in NYC Open Data.

Queens Boulevard remains a wound. It ranks near the top for injuries here. So does the LIE. Both show up in the small-area “top intersections” list pulled from city data.

“Two motorists were badly hurt and still have not fully recovered,” Queens DA Melinda Katz said after a wrong-way case on a Queens highway. The driver told police, “I entered the Clearview Expressway in the wrong direction because I wanted to hurt people and I felt ‘liberated’ by what I had done.” Those words live in the court record quoted by amNY.

Night after night

  • Injuries stack up after dark. Midnight to 3 a.m. shows steady hurt. So do the rush hours at 8 a.m., 3 p.m., and 5 p.m. The hourly chart in the neighborhood data says so. It’s in the crash dataset.
  • “The driver sped off without stopping. No arrests have been made,” reporters wrote of a 2:30 a.m. hit-and-run near JFK. Not Rego Park, but Queens all the same. A 52‑year‑old man died. The words are from the Daily News and Gothamist, with time and location echoed by ABC7.

Three corners. One fix.

  • Queens Boulevard at 63rd Drive. Woodhaven Boulevard at 60 Drive. The Long Island Expressway through Rego Park. They lead this map for harm. See the “top intersections” list in NYC Open Data.
  • The contributing factors repeat: inattention, failure to yield, disregarded signals. The small-geo breakdown shows them. The fixes are plain: daylighting and hardened turns at the boulevards; leading pedestrian intervals at the signals; targeted nighttime enforcement at repeat hotspots. These are the patterns in the dataset.

Officials know what works — do they?

  • City Hall already has tools that slow cars and save lives. Albany passed measures to let NYC set safer speeds. Our own “Take Action” page lays it out and cites the law: drop the default speed to 20 mph and use it citywide. Cameras already run 24/7. The piece is here: Take Action.
  • The state is moving on the worst repeat speeders. The Senate bill S4045 advanced in June. It would force drivers with heavy points or camera tickets to install speed limiters. Sen. Joe Addabbo voted yes in committee, twice. See the votes in the Senate record.
  • Council Member Robert Holden co-sponsored a bill to yank city permits from drivers with obscured or defaced plates. That stops people from dodging cameras. It’s filed as Int 1358-2025.

The dead, the hurt, the pattern

  • In this small patch, bikes and bodies keep meeting steel. Since 2022, one bicyclist killed. Three occupants killed. Eighty‑two pedestrians injured. That split is in the mode table from NYC Open Data.
  • The curve is bad this year. Crashes are up 31% over last year to date. Injuries up 68%. Three people dead versus none last year at this point. That’s the year‑to‑date comparison in the period stats derived from city data.

What now

  • Slow every car. Lower the default speed to 20 mph and enforce it. Back the speed limiter bill for repeat offenders. Those two moves, together, cut the worst harm. Read the cases and call your officials: Take Action.

Citations

Citations

Other Representatives

Andrew Hevesi
Assembly Member Andrew Hevesi
District 28
District Office:
70-50 Austin St. Suite 114, Forest Hills, NY 11375
Legislative Office:
Room 626, Legislative Office Building, Albany, NY 12248
Robert F. Holden
Council Member Robert F. Holden
District 30
District Office:
64-69 Dry Harbor Road, Middle Village, NY 11379
718-366-3900
Legislative Office:
250 Broadway, Suite 1558, New York, NY 10007
212-788-7381
Twitter: @BobHoldenNYC
Joe Addabbo
State Senator Joe Addabbo
District 15
District Office:
66-85 73rd Place, Middle Village, NY 11379
Legislative Office:
Room 811, Legislative Office Building, Albany, NY 12247

Traffic Safety Timeline for Rego Park

1
Six-car westbound LIE crash injures driver in Queens

Nov 1 - Six westbound drivers collided on the Long Island Expressway in Queens at 10:40 p.m. Fronts hit backs. A 52-year-old driver was hurt. Police recorded center-front and rear damage across the line.

Six drivers traveling west on the Long Island Expressway in Queens crashed at 10:40 p.m. According to the police report, all drivers were going straight ahead, and damage included center front-end and center back-end impacts, with left-front hits noted. A 52-year-old male driver was injured, with abrasions and whole-body pain recorded, injury severity three. Other occupants were listed with unspecified injuries. Police listed contributing factors as "Unspecified" for the involved drivers and did not record a specific driver error in the crash.


  • Motor Vehicle Collisions – CrashID 4854736 - Crashes, Persons, Vehicles , NYC Open Data, Accessed 2025-11-12
1
Driver Hurt in Queens Boulevard Crash

Nov 1 - A 76-year-old driver in a 1997 Honda crashed on Queens Boulevard near 96-41. She suffered lower-leg crush injuries. Police recorded driver inattention and distraction. She was going straight northwest. Impact marked the center front end.

According to the police report, a 76-year-old woman driving a 1997 Honda sedan was injured in a crash on Queens Boulevard near 96-41 at 8:40 a.m. The report lists lower-leg trauma with a crush injury complaint. Police recorded driver inattention/distraction as a contributing factor. The driver was going straight northwest before the crash. The point of impact was the center front end, and damage matched that location. No pedestrians or cyclists were listed as injured. The case falls in the 112th Precinct in Queens, ZIP 11374, under collision ID 4854641.


  • Motor Vehicle Collisions – CrashID 4854641 - Crashes, Persons, Vehicles , NYC Open Data, Accessed 2025-11-12
28
Driver Fatally Doors Cyclist in Queens Yet is Not Charged

27
Driver Inattention Injures Passenger on 62 Dr

Oct 27 - Two westbound drivers collided on 62 Dr near Queens Blvd. Right front into left rear. A 28-year-old woman in the back seat reported abdominal pain. Police recorded driver inattention.

Two drivers traveling west on 62 Dr in Queens crashed near Queens Blvd at 6:45 a.m. A 28-year-old woman riding in the left rear seat was injured. She reported abdominal and pelvic pain and nausea. Shock was noted. According to the police report, both vehicles were sedans heading west, with right front bumper damage on one and left rear quarter panel damage on the other. Police recorded Driver Inattention/Distraction. It happened in the 112th Precinct.


  • Motor Vehicle Collisions – CrashID 4853091 - Crashes, Persons, Vehicles , NYC Open Data, Accessed 2025-11-12
14
BMW Driver Rear-Ends Stopped Honda on LIE

Oct 14 - Queens, Long Island Expressway. A westbound BMW driver hit a Honda stopped in traffic. Police recorded driver inattention/distraction. Two passengers hurt: a 31-year-old man with leg injuries and a 45-year-old man with neck pain.

Two drivers were westbound on the Long Island Expressway in Queens. The driver of a 2023 BMW sedan went straight and hit the rear of a 2007 Honda sedan that was stopped in traffic. A 31-year-old front passenger suffered leg injuries. A 45-year-old passenger reported neck pain and whiplash. According to the police report, police recorded 'Driver Inattention/Distraction' for the drivers. Impact was center front to center rear. The Honda carried three people; the BMW carried one. The crash happened at night. The injuries fell on passengers.


  • Motor Vehicle Collisions – CrashID 4850207 - Crashes, Persons, Vehicles , NYC Open Data, Accessed 2025-11-12
9
Driver collides with cyclist at LIE and Junction

Oct 9 - A driver collided with a 36-year-old man on a bike by the Long Island Expressway and Junction Boulevard in Queens at 6:07 a.m. He took a shoulder and upper-arm hit. Police listed an unspecified second vehicle. No factors were recorded.

A driver in an unspecified vehicle collided with a bicyclist at the Long Island Expressway and Junction Boulevard in Queens at 6:07 a.m. on October 9, 2025. The cyclist is a 36-year-old man. He was listed as injured with shoulder and upper arm trauma. According to the police report, the crash involved a bike and another vehicle, the bicyclist was traveling north and going straight ahead, and the location falls in the 112th Precinct. Police did not record a contributing factor for the driver. No driver errors were listed in the data. The report noted no damage to the bike and no other people injured.


  • Motor Vehicle Collisions – CrashID 4848882 - Crashes, Persons, Vehicles , NYC Open Data, Accessed 2025-11-12
21
Hit-run driver speeding to Dunkin’ Donuts when he killed Queens expressway construction worker: D.A.
20
Driver charged after woman directing traffic around expressway killed in Queens hit-and-run
18
Suspect who allegedly intentionally ran over, killed Queens teen is in the country illegally, ICE says
16
Man struck and killed by two vehicles while trying to cross Belt Parkway in South Ozone Park: NYPD
15
2 children struck by driver in Queens, suspect in custody, witnesses say
13
Teenage girl fatally struck by SUV in Queens, suspect in custody
10
Left-turning SUV driver injures passenger

Sep 10 - A passenger was hurt when a driver in an SUV turned left on HOR HARDING EXPRESSWAY EXIT WB. The 50-year-old suffered a leg bruise. Police recorded driver inattention.

According to the police report, a driver in a 2017 Nissan SUV made a left turn on HOR HARDING EXPRESSWAY EXIT WB. A 50-year-old passenger was injured, with a leg contusion listed. Police recorded driver inattention/distraction by the driver. The driver, a 60-year-old man, was listed with no injuries. A 61-year-old registrant was also listed with no injuries. The point of impact was the left front quarter panel, and damage matched that area. The vehicle’s travel direction was east before the turn.


  • Motor Vehicle Collisions – CrashID 4841417 - Crashes, Persons, Vehicles , NYC Open Data, Accessed 2025-11-12
5
Queens teen with autism fatally struck by car after going missing from LI school
3
Right-turning driver hit Lexus rear; teen hurt

Sep 3 - At noon in Queens, a right‑turning driver hit the back of a southbound Lexus on 98 St at 62 Dr. The 19‑year‑old driver was injured and listed unconscious. Police recorded Driver Inattention/Distraction.

Two vehicles collided at 98 St and 62 Dr in Queens at 12:00. The driver of a Dodge car/SUV was making a right turn. The driver of a 2024 Lexus sedan was traveling south, going straight. The Lexus had center back‑end damage. A 19‑year‑old male driver was injured with an eye injury and was listed unconscious, with a complaint of pain or nausea. According to the police report, police recorded Driver Inattention/Distraction. The report also lists Driver Inattention/Distraction for involved persons. A 39‑year‑old female registrant was noted with unspecified injury status.


  • Motor Vehicle Collisions – CrashID 4841418 - Crashes, Persons, Vehicles , NYC Open Data, Accessed 2025-11-12
2
Many Queens riders now navigating new commute, due to full redesign of MTA's bus network
1
MTA got busy with second phase of Queens bus network redesign this weekend
31
Second phase of Queens bus network redesign goes into effect
26
LIE lane change slams sedan, injures kids

Aug 26 - Eastbound on the LIE, a lane change went bad. A sedan clipped a box truck and struck another car. Metal jumped. A 6‑year‑old boy took a face wound. Drivers and passengers hurt. Queens traffic ground them down.

A Honda sedan changed lanes eastbound on the Long Island Expressway and collided, leaving the Jeep’s right front damaged and the box truck’s left rear struck. Several people were hurt, including a 6-year-old boy with a facial abrasion, two drivers with pain, and front-seat passengers reporting leg and neck injuries. According to the police report, contributing factors were listed as “Other Vehicular” for the involved vehicles and persons. The data show the Honda was “Changing Lanes,” while the Jeep and box truck were “Going Straight Ahead,” underscoring improper lane movement and impact to multiple vehicles. No pedestrian or cyclist was involved. Helmet use or signaling is not cited as a factor in the report.


  • Motor Vehicle Collisions – CrashID 4838887 - Crashes, Persons, Vehicles , NYC Open Data, Accessed 2025-11-12
15
Alcohol-scarred chain crash on Woodhaven

Aug 15 - Four sedans going north on Woodhaven met steel and pain. Metal kissed metal. Two drivers hit with whiplash. Police cite Alcohol Involvement. Night street. Hard stop. Sirens cut the dark.

Two northbound sedans struck others in a chain crash on Woodhaven Blvd at Furmanville Ave in Queens. Two drivers, men aged 27 and 36, were injured with neck pain and whiplash. Several passengers were listed with unspecified injuries. According to the police report, the contributing factor was “Alcohol Involvement.” The data shows multiple driver errors by implication: alcohol use behind the wheel endangering everyone in the cars. No pedestrian or cyclist injuries were recorded. No other contributing factors, signals, or helmet notes were listed before the alcohol finding.


  • Motor Vehicle Collisions – CrashID 4836269 - Crashes, Persons, Vehicles , NYC Open Data, Accessed 2025-11-12