Belt Parkway

A speeding BMW flipped over as the driver failed to navigate a turn on Queens’ Belt Parkway overnight, killing both of his passengers, authorities say. Cops responding to the Belt Parkway crash near 150th Street in South Ozone Park around midnight found the BMW mangled. Both passengers died — a 16-year-old boy at a hospital a short time later and…

The 36-year-old man from Brooklyn who pleaded guilty last month to striking and killing a 63-year-old motorist on the Belt Parkway as he was driving over 90 mph while under the influence of cocaine, marijuana and alcohol in December 2020 was sentenced to prison in connection to the crime, local prosecutors said Wednesday. Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz announced that…

A 36-year-old man from Brooklyn who was under the influence of cocaine, marijuana and alcohol at the time of a deadly Belt Parkway crash in 2020, pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter, prosecutors announced Thursday. Jason Bical was driving 92 mph on the Belt Parkway when he struck and killed a 63-year-old motorist who was stopped for a minor accident, Queens…

Four people were hurt, at least one of them seriously, in a four-vehicle crash on the Belt Parkway in Queens early Monday, police said. Cops initially responded to a call about the multi-vehicle accident on the westbound highway near Cohancy Street, by exit 17w, around 1:30 a.m. They say it appears two of the four vehicles involved in the wreck…

A bad accident shut down part of the Belt Parkway in Queens on Monday, authorities said.

A 16-year-old behind the wheel of a minivan died early Saturday morning after a chain-reaction crash caused the vehicle to rollover and ejected the driver, authorities said. Investigators said the minivan was traveling at a high rate of speed when it clipped a vehicle on Belt Parkway around 2 a.m. That’s when the teen driver lost control of the...

A New York City police officer fired several rounds at a white Porsche as it broke through a police roadblock Sunday morning on the Belt Parkway in Brooklyn, law enforcement sources said. Police officers set up the roadblock for all lanes on the Belt Parkway West in connection to a fleeing vehicle from an earlier theft of a catalytic converter…

Police in New York City say three people died overnight in three separate crashes before the sun rose Sunday morning. The deadly six-hour period began around 12:40 a.m. when police responded to a 911 call for a crash on Guy R Brewer Boulevard in South Jamaica. Officers found Terrell Lumpkin with extensive trauma who had been driving a 2013 Infiniti…

A witness who was in his Jeep at the time captured the deadly showdown between him and police on cellphone video. More than a dozen gunshots could be heard ringing out.

Police say they’ve identified the man who was shot and killed by police on the Belt Parkway on Thursday night. Myles Miller reports.

According to investigators, highway officers initially tried to pull Brian Astarita over for speeding near Bay 8th Street just after 4 p.m., but he rear-ended an officer and continued heading east in a Jeep.

A witness who was in his Jeep at the time captured the deadly showdown between him and police on cellphone video. More than a dozen gunshots could be heard ringing out.

Police say the driver got out of his SUV and grabbed a gun, so officers opened fire at the man. NBC New York’s Checkey Beckford reports.

Police pulled over a vehicle on the Belt Parkway, and an armed suspect was shot and killed, according to police sources. Traffic on the highway was backed up for miles, as part of it was fully shut down.

A man was shot in the leg by NYPD officers on a section of the Belt Parkway in Brooklyn, shutting down the highway and causing miles-long backups in both directions.

A suspected drunk driver drove into a crash scene early Monday morning on the Belt Parkway, running into a police cruiser and killing a Brooklyn man. The 35-year-old victim had stopped on the left side of the Belt Parkway after rear-ending another driver around 1 a.m., police say. Peter Tse was behind the wheel of a BMW i8 when he…