{"id":1033860,"date":"2026-08-30T23:28:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T23:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1033860\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T23:28:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T23:28:31","slug":"nyc-nurse-killed-in-caught-on-camera-hit-and-run-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1033860\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC nurse killed in caught-on-camera hit-and-run crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

A speeding hit-and-run driver killed a 28-year-old nurse walking home from working the overnight shift at a nearby Brooklyn hospital on Saturday, according to officials and video of the crash.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Jiayi Zheng \u2014 still wearing her forest green scrubs \u2014 was walking along the crosswalk at 55th Street and Third Avenue when the operator of a black Cadillac sedan drove through a red light and barreled into her around 7:30 a.m. in Sunset Park, disturbing footage shows.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Zheng was sent flying in the air before landing on the median, just a block away from where she worked at NYU Langone-Brooklyn Hospital as a medical- surgical unit nurse.<\/p>\n

\"SurveillanceNew York City nurse Jiayi Zheng was killed in a hit-and-run crash while walking home from an overnight shift in Brooklyn. News12<\/p>\n

Medics rushed her to the same hospital, but she succumbed to her head and neck injuries.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The heartless driver \u2014 who police sources said had Pennsylvania plates \u2014 never stopped. <\/p>\n

\u201cI heard the bang. Her bag was over here, and they left her there,\u201d witness Antonio Perez told News 12 Brooklyn<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe car just kept on, it never stopped for nothing at all.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The deadly crash unfolded on a perilous roadway, according to Sen. Andrew Gounardes, who represents the neighborhood.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A Department of Transportation redesign plan for the dangerous stretch of roadway was presented in 2023 but never went into effect.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhile the investigation proceeds, I am once again calling on\u00a0@NYC_DOT to work with the community to make 3rd Ave safer,\u201d Gounardes wrote on X<\/a>. \u201cJust over a year age we lost two elderly neighbors to a similar crash, and 3rd Ave remains one of the most dangerous corridors in Brooklyn. Enough is enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

The tragedy unfolded just one block away from where\u00a0nurse Clara Kang, 31, was killed by a motorcyclist<\/a> when she was heading home on a bike from working at the same hospital in 2020.<\/p>\n

Zheng is the ninth person killed by a hit-and-run driver in the last two weeks across the Big Apple \u2014 and 11th killed while walking or biking the two-mile stretch of Third Avenue that runs under the Brooklyn Queens Expressway since 2014, according to\u00a0advocacy group Transportation Alternatives.<\/p>\n

\u201cNew York City streets should be the envy of the world, but we are the envy of no one today,\u201d Ben Furnas, their executive director, said in a statement. <\/p>\n

Zheng\u2019s colleagues remembered her as a \u201cloving nurse and hard worker\u201d in the medical-surgical unit, News 12 reported.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are deeply saddened by the passing of Jiayi Zheng, a nurse at NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn,\u201d a spokesperson for the hospital said in a statement to The Post. <\/p>\n

\u201cOur nurses play an essential role in caring for others with compassion and dedication, and this loss is being felt across our entire community.\u201d<\/p>\n

The driver has yet to be caught as of Sunday afternoon. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A speeding hit-and-run driver killed a 28-year-old nurse walking home from working the overnight shift at a nearby…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1033861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,1121,23762,5417,5248,405,403,5226,5225,77401,5228,5227,5257,42773,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":["post-1033860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-brooklyn","tag-crashes","tag-hit-and-run","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-nurses","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-sunset-park","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-news","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117187060003084566","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1033860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1033861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}